Brewster, David P.

Practiced law after graduating Union College in 1823. Died in 1873https://digitalworks.union.edu/alumnifiles_1823/1007/thumbnail.jp

The Ghost in the Stereoscope

'The Ghost in the Stereoscope. [Kindly suggested by Sir David Brewster, K.H.] Entered at Stationers' Hall.' printed on reverse

India's security partnership with Singapore

In recent years, India and Singapore have developed a strong bilateral security and economic partnership that has assumed a central position in India's strategic engagement in Southeast Asia. Having sought strategic engagement with India for many decades, Singapore has now successfully positioned itself as India's leading political partner and economic gateway to the region. At the same time, India and Singapore have actively pursued close defence ties, including frequent joint training and the assumption of an active maritime security role by India in Southeast Asia. The recent decision by India to allow the Singapore air force and army to operate long term training facilities on Indian territory represents a significant development in Indian strategic practice and may presage a more permanent Indian security presence in East Asia. This article will examine these developments and consider to what extent the emergent security relationship between India and Singapore should be seen as a desire to balance China's growing economic and political dominance of the region and to what extent it reflects a ‘natural’ strategic sphere for India stretching from Aden to Singapore and beyond into East Asia

Review of The Neglected C. S. Lewis: Exploring the Riches of His Most Overlooked Books

Review of Mark Neal and Jerry Root, The Neglected C. S. Lewis: Exploring the Riches of His Most Overlooked Books (Brewster, MA: Mount Tabor Books, 2020). vii + 181 pages. Foreword by Dr. David C. Downing. $24.00. ISBN 9781640602946

Indo-Pacific century: new concept, new challenges

The Indo-Pacific concept is a useful way of understanding changing regional dynamics, David Brewster writes, but it also reflects a key strategic challenge – the relationship between China and India

Operation Lal Dora: India's aborted military intervention in Mauritius

As India expands its strategic reach in the Indian Ocean, it will need friends that it can count on. The island state of Mauritius has long been one of India's closest allies in the region. This article discusses India's plans for a military intervention in Mauritius in 1983 to prevent a feared coup that may have threatened India's interests. A naval task force was readied, but the intervention did not proceed because of disagreements in India's leadership. Instead New Delhi facilitated a political solution to the crisis that firmly consolidated its special role. This previously undisclosed episode sheds light on India's thinking about the Indian Ocean, the alignment of India's interests with the United States, and India's military capabilities

Aspects and Abstracta

Philosophers of perception and psychologists first studied ‘multistable’ or ‘reversible’ figures, Kippbilder, in the nineteenth century. The earliest description of the phenomenon of a ‘sudden and involuntary change in the apparent position’ of a represented object occurred in a letter written by Louis Albert Necker in Geneva to Sir David Brewster on 24 May 1832 and published six months later in the Philosophical Magazine. The picture in question would become known as the Necker cube

Review of \u3ci\u3eSeeking Life Whole: Willa Cather and the Brewsters\u3c/i\u3e by Lucy Marks and David Porter

Seeking Life Whole, eighth in Fairleigh Dickinson\u27s series on Willa Cather, is a volume in two parts, with nine subdivisions, and excellent notes. Part 1 contains Lucy Marks\u27s biographical account of the lives of expatriate painters Achsah Barlow Brewster and her husband Earl H. Brewster, and David Porter\u27s biographical and critical account of the previously unknown relationship between the Brewsters and Willa Cather. The Brewsters went to Europe after their marriage in 1910 to dedicate themselves to painting, nature, study, and a simple, beautiful way of life; they attracted a remarkable range of friends. Their type has been satirized, by their friend D. H. Lawrence among others, but Marks demonstrates their authenticity and its precarious foundation on subsidies from family and friends. Their story is an important part of the history of the expatriate generation, although it has nothing to do with the Great Plains beyond Achsah\u27s erroneous mention of Red Rock, Kansas, as Cather\u27s home at one time

Liberal McCarthyism and the Origins of Critical Race Theory

The article discusses the emergence of liberal McCarthyism and the origins of critical race theory in the U.S. It reviews the conflicting stories from Harvard Law School in Massachusetts and the University of California in Berkeley and Los Angeles about critical race theory. The article examines the role of radical professors Kingman Brewster, James Conant, Clark Kerr and Albert Bowker in McCarthyism. The author relates how professors David Trubek, Richard Abel, Staughton Lynd and Anthony Platt lost their job due to liberal McCarthyism

Liberal McCarthyism and the Origins of Critical Race Theory

The article discusses the emergence of liberal McCarthyism and the origins of critical race theory in the U.S. It reviews the conflicting stories from Harvard Law School in Massachusetts and the University of California in Berkeley and Los Angeles about critical race theory. The article examines the role of radical professors Kingman Brewster, James Conant, Clark Kerr and Albert Bowker in McCarthyism. The author relates how professors David Trubek, Richard Abel, Staughton Lynd and Anthony Platt lost their job due to liberal McCarthyism