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Robert L. Kehoe III is a contributing editor at The Point. His work has appeared in Los Angeles Review of Books and Books and Culture, among other publications.
The Olympics have long tried to obscure the political nature of sport.
Big-money college sports suffer a lot of criticism, but they are symptomatic of larger shifts in the moral economy of higher education.
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