Is There a Difference Between Academic Discourse and Political Discourse?

i think there is really increasingly to a very narrow space between sort of political discourse and academic discourse. Academics are writing, expected to write public pieces, public political pieces,. And i think the reverse is the same a lot of am, a lot of non academic sources are being cited by academics. O more intellectual magazines like boston review, et cetera, are being used among researchers in the academy. I think that's a productive overlap, but i think it can be a dangerous one. When you're working on issues of inequality, questions of race, i think there's a sense that things are very tense.