Didier Fassin is James D. Wolfensohn Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and a Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He authored fifteen books translated in seven languages and edited more than twenty collective volumes, among them The Will to Punish, Oxford University Press, 2018; Life. A Critical User’s Manual, Polity Press,2018 and Humanitarian Reason. A Moral History of the Present, University of California Press, 2011.