We discuss in simple physical terms two recently proposed field theoretic mechanisms which may shed light on deep inelastic phenomena. Certain gauge theories of quarks can have the short distance and light cone properties of quark fields without their production in scattering experiments. Gauge theories can also be free at short distances and lead to asymptotic Bjorken scaling broken only by logarithms. These proposals suggest non‐abelian gauge theories of colored quarks as the field‐theoretic basis of strong interactions.