The parallels between these Olympics and the 1936 Games are rather remarkable. Yes, the world has improved in many ways during the decades between, but some thi

The parallels between these Olympics and the 1936 Games are rather remarkable. Yes, the world has improved in many ways during the decades between, but some things, such as preening and willful ignorance for the sake of PR spectacle sponsored by authoritarian regimes seem to remain perfectly acceptable. Underlying that, the fact that there's still no escaping the existence of well-established repressive regimes in major world powers.