Today is the first day of the 2024 summer Olympic Games, held in Paris. I'm a big sports fan, and I love watching the games. But it's also true that the Olympics have awful dark sides. Past games have featured horrible forcible displacement of residents to make way for stadium construction, saddled taxpayers with huge cost overruns, and served as propaganda showcases for brutal authoritarian regimes, such as those of Russia, China, and Nazi Germany.
