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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.