As I’ve been saying, we’re having an episode of college-rape hysteria not because college students are more likely to be raped — or even as likely to be raped — as people in the general population, but simply because people who work in the media are mostly people who went to college, not people who grew up on Indian reservations, who served time in prison, or who live in rural Alaska.

Our navel-gazing elites simply are not interested in sexual assaults that happen on Wyoming hay farms as they are in sexual assaults that happen on 310 particular acres in New Haven, Conn.

The Department of Justice offers the most recent confirmation here, noting that non-students suffer rape at substantially higher rates than do college students.