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Our end-of-year sale has ended for 2017.

Absurd at it will seem, this episode of prosecutorial overreach should not be laughed off, even with a first set of acquittals in hand. Its obscene falsity has within it a moment of truth.

Alain Badiou debates Laurent Joffrin, a reformist (and editor of Libération newspaper), who defends existing social democracy. 

A look back at our most read blog posts of the year. 

Lynne Segal on the revolutionary power of joy and how to keep political optimism alive in contemporary capitalism.

25 classics from the Verso archive.

The case of Thomas Guénolé concerns us as antiracist and anticolonialist Jews because he represents a worrying tendency in leftist political thought, particularly in France.

Johanna Brenner considers a variety of strategies by which caregiving might be socialized outside the institutions of family and household.

With several exciting new presses launching, we are never (ever) short of books to read! Here's some of our non-Verso favourites this year, chosen by staff in New York and London.

The annual Verso prize for Cultural and Critical Studies is awarded to the top student graduating from Birkbeck’s MA Cultural and Critical Studies. This year, the prize goes to student Elle Aspell-Sheppard for her excellent project on “post-truth” and its effects on politics, using the specific example of Donald Trump’s electoral campaign. The external examiner described the essay as a “beautifully written piece of work, which brings Hannah Arendt’s thought successfully into the present moment…a thoughtful argument is advanced around the idea of post-truth as a contemporary keyword”. Speaking is an extract from the winning dissertation.

A poem for Jerusalem by Michael Rosen.

The University of Michigan is preparing for a visit from white supremacist Richard Spencer. If past is prologue, then the UM administration’s policy will tend toward disengagement and caution, rather than effective resistance.