answering questions. “Please step this way, I have a few things to ask you. . . . Did you pack your own bags this morning? Has a stranger given you anything to carry? Where were you staying in the Netherlands? I do need to see your passport.” I decide to give straight answers, even if the smiling young woman— officially, I suppose, with the full power of the Dutch nation-state behind her— soon ...

In order to locate and understand a notion of freedom in the later works of Michel Foucault, I will first offer a discussion of delinquency as described in Discipline and Punish. Within this discussion I will argue against Thomas Dumm’s characterization of the delinquent as emblematic of freedom on the grounds that such a characterization is implicitly contested in Discipline and Punish. I will...

Modernity is easy to inhabit but difficult define. If modernity be a definable, delimited concept, we must identify some people or practices concepts as nonmodern.