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The article focuses on the overlooked significance of friendship in the lives of intellectuals, emphasizing its role in shaping their careers and intellectual accomplishments. It delves into the multi-dimensional nature of friendships, not solely based on emotional connections but also on how friendships evolve across different life phases and contribute to personal and intellectual development.

The article presents the discussion on hyper-partisanship reinforced by vanity, narcissism, and careerism. Topics include realizing some goals from long social democratic and socialist struggles, though emphatically as compromises; and fascism showing reaction to disruption, financialization, new inequalities, and depressions thrusting citizens into poverty.

The article presents the discussion on confrontations and clashes as sociologists confronting the conservatism or sometimes irrelevance of existing approaches. Topics include fallen behind in interdisciplinary competition for funding, student enrollments, and policy influence; and enrollments in sociology peaked near the crisis of 1973–1975 ushering in tighter job markets, the ascendancy of economics, and neoliberalism.

Labor in mature capitalism was different from craft work just before capitalism or during the transition to capitalism. In short, our resources for thinking about postcapitalism come in significant part from the aspects of life under capitalism that are not fully controlled by capitalism, not fully subsumed into the categories of capitalism. Third, the historical specificity of capitalism helps us understand not only the distinction of labor as value production from work outside capitalism but also the relationship of capitalism to finance. It may be that capitalism is a totality in the sense that the elements of capitalism must all be explained and understood in relation to capitalism and not to what is outside capitalism. [Extracted from the article]

The article offers the author's insights on Brexit or referendum of Great Britain for leaving the European Union (EU). Topics discussed include the Brexit was manifested a vote against English nationalism and multiculturalism, the vote was grounded with nostalgia wherein the Brexit campaign was nearly negative and devoid of plans for the future, and the divisions between white majority and racial minorities.

The article discusses the Candian philosopher Charles Taylor's work on the recognization of human behavior for the development of culture. Topics include the role of secularization in society, Taylor's involvement with analytic philosophy, and romanticism, and issues in philosophy related to public engagements and personal reflection.