The study of the history of conspire. C theory is undergoing something of a boom at the moment. Just as the study of witchcraft did a few decades ago. As other scholars have noted historians of medieval early modern europe used to view witchcraft and witch hunting as marginal aspects of the societies as they studied. Then they began to realize. That witch hunts revealed great insights into the cultures of the time. So similarly, a growing number of. Historians are realizing that an understanding of the history of Conspiracy Theory is central to understanding the current american political moment. Now, thats not to say that. The study of the history of american theory is new. In the 1960s, richard hofstadter, his landmark essay on the paranoid style in american politics, which was term for Conspiracy Theory. And historians like david bryant davis, gordon wood and Bernard Bailyn soon followed by showing the significance of conspiracies thinking in the American Revolution in early republi
Did a few decades ago. As other scholars have noted historians of medieval early modern europe used to view witchcraft and witch hunting as marginal aspects of the societies as they studied. Then they began to realize. That witch hunts revealed great insights into the cultures of the time. So similarly, a growing number of. Historians are realizing that an understanding of the history of Conspiracy Theory is central to understanding the current american political moment. Now, thats not to say that. The study of the history of american theory is new. In the 1960s, richard hofstadter, his landmark essay on the paranoid style in american politics, which was term for Conspiracy Theory. And historians like david bryant davis, gordon wood and Bernard Bailyn soon followed by showing the significance of conspiracies thinking in the American Revolution in early republic. Then, in the 1980s, Michael Rogan brilliantly in ronald reagan, the movie that what he called a counter tradition was, as he
Realtime closed captioning provided by u. S. Captioning company. The city of San Francisco sfgtv meeting of the plans and Programs Commission occurring oct 11, 2016, will begin shortly. The city of San Francisco sfgtv meeting of the plans and Programs Commission occurring oct 11, 2016, will begin shortly. The city of San Francisco sfgtv meeting of the plans and Programs Commission occurring oct 11, 2016, will begin shortly. Good morning, and welcome to our plans and Program Committee meeting of the for tuesday october 11, 2016. Im tang, chairing this committee. And to my left we have commissioner v avalos, and peskin and from sfgovtv, we would like to thank jennifer and mark. Could we call the role . Avalos in frechlt present. Farrell . Absent. Peskin. Present. Tang. Present. We have a quorum. Thank you. Item two . Item two, Citizens Advisory Committee report, this is an information item. Welcome chris, our cac chair. Good morning, commissioners. I am here to report on two items that w
The funding strategy to high americans with disability speed rail and they are dubious priority criteria. At best. And members of the public can but the other issue is that, request kurb ramps online. High speed rail is predicated on a San Francisco to la trip being or by calling the 311 telephone no more expensive than an line. And as well. Airplane trip. So, i am available to answer any and so that ultimately is a questions that you have and also constraint. There are Agency Public project and to the extent that san managers here as well. Francisco starts putting thank you for your presentation. Passenger facility fees on, and just going back to the worker san jose starts to put the passenger fees on, we will fall protection installations. I know that the cac chair brought up the issue regarding exceed that constraint and dome the high cost at around 12 the high speed rail, and it just million, could you just explain seems like a house of cards. Why the high cost . If i can address t
Committee report, this is an information item. Welcome chris, our cac chair. Good morning, commissioners. I am here to report on two items that we discussed at our cse meeting this month. Item number four in your packet, the 12. 7 Million Dollar prop k. We approved this unanimously. And it will just make a comment on when we discussed this. Being accustomed to seeing the high dollar amounts to some items some were taken back by the high cost of the much needed protections at the six facilities. And while the contractor portion of the allocation of the request is broken out really well, and i thank mta for providing that. And something that jumps out at us that was not explained and i hope that they can explain today a little bit further, is the nearly 2 million for the Construction Management and support and engineering and project manages management and it seems high. And the prop aa criteria and we approved this unanimously, and it was changed and removed the languages in the plan, a