THERE
are enough grim tidings from around the world that the news from
Rotherham, a faded English industrial town where about 1,400 girls,
mostly white and working class, were raped
by gangs of Pakistani men while the local authorities basically
shrugged and did nothing, is already slipping out of American headlines.
But
we should remain with Rotherham for a moment, and give its story a
suitable place of dishonor in the waking nightmare that is late summer
2014.