dr. woodward: that in comprehensibility --sorry about that. [laughter] dr. woodward: it is a poison pill when trying to connect with the public. you reduce the ideals that are clear to talk about it clear to understand, so that synthesistellectual is deeply demanding and often not necessary when dealing with nationalists, but it is a poor nonpar presenting presenting to the public. .5 is a corollary to the preceding point. to borrow our concept loosely, nuance isis -- nuisance. yes, we have long thought that this is because of such and such historical change, but i am arguing that in this iteration under these circumstances, the cause is not this but this and that. mildly interesting to specialists, mindnumbing nuisance to most others. so unless you have a really solid reason to pepper the public with nuanced argument, tighten down, curb your enthusiasm. there is something else you might want to curb, too, and that is my final point -- park your biases at the door to as academics, most of us are privileged to live and work in communities of scholars who share