They Called Rotherham a "Muslim Problem" — What Do They Call Epstein's Island?

Where's "Race" When Discussing the World's Most Notorious Grooming Gang?

The release of the Department of Justice files on Jeffrey Epstein has confirmed what the victims always said — that a network of extraordinarily wealthy and powerful men raped children with impunity for many decades, shielded by prosecutors, intelligence agencies, and the velvet machinery of class. The files have given us names, dates, flight logs, and email exchanges so depraved they read like evidence from a civilization in terminal moral collapse. And yet, in the great churning of American media, one dimension of this case remains almost perfectly untouched: race.

This silence is itself a confession.

We know what happens when predators are brown — or rather, when predators are perceived to be brown. When grooming gangs in Rotherham and Rochdale were exposed in Britain, the discourse was immediate, racialized, and totalizing. The crimes were not treated as the acts of individual men. They became proof of a civilizational pathology — Islam itself was put on trial. Commentators who had …