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Julian D. Jacobs

Julian D. Jacobs

A New Ethics: China is looking to surpass the West as a leader in artificial intelligence ethics

WHEN the 19-year-old Chinese national Ke Jie lost a game of Go to a Google computer program, it indicated on a global stage just how far…

Jun 5, 2018

A New Ethics: China is looking to surpass the West as a leader in artificial intelligence ethics

Jun 5, 2018

Julian D. Jacobs

Literary Criticism of Henry James’ Turn of the Screw

How Henry James’ Turn of The Screw Employs Our Imagination

Jun 5, 2018

Jun 5, 2018

Julian D. Jacobs

Perceptions of Democracy at the 2016 DNC

Amidst the dissonance of cheering delegates, chanting protestors, police sirens, and the enervated but furious sound of press keyboards…

Jan 3, 2018

Jan 3, 2018

Julian D. Jacobs

A modest deficit-reduction proposal.

Jul 24, 2017

A modest deficit-reduction proposal.

Jul 24, 2017

Julian D. Jacobs

“Quant” Hedge Funds

IN February 1996, a chess-playing computer named “Deep Blue” defeated Grandmaster Garry Kasparov in what was the first chess victory of a…

Jul 24, 2017

“Quant” Hedge Funds

Jul 24, 2017

Julian D. Jacobs

Aid in Fragile States

There are many reasons to be optimistic about global poverty rates. As The Economist reported, “between 1990 and 2010, [the number of…

May 23, 2017

Aid in Fragile States

May 23, 2017

Julian D. Jacobs

Utilitarianism and the Market Economy

Aristotle famously began the Nicomachean Ethics with a declaration: “Every art and every investigation, and likewise every practical…

Apr 12, 2017

Utilitarianism and the Market Economy

Apr 12, 2017

Julian D. Jacobs

Progress and Regress: Emperor Franz Joseph and the Rise of Austrian Fascism

In the late 19th century, Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria oversaw a period of unprecedented intellectual and cultural growth in the…

Feb 21, 2017

Progress and Regress: Emperor Franz Joseph and the Rise of Austrian Fascism

Feb 21, 2017

Julian D. Jacobs

The Fall of the Republic: Why referenda always go bad

The declaration that “tyranny naturally arises out of democracy” is the famous, anti-democratic thesis of Plato’s Republic. While the…

Jan 2, 2017

The Fall of the Republic: Why referenda always go bad

Jan 2, 2017

Julian D. Jacobs

Educated, Yet Excluded: Why Access to Education for Iranian Women is Not Enough

Women’s education level is often considered a significant indicator of modernity and socio-economic progress. Today, there is a major…

Dec 8, 2016

Educated, Yet Excluded: Why Access to Education for Iranian Women is Not Enough

Dec 8, 2016

Julian D. Jacobs

Julian D. Jacobs

Student at Brown University, writer for Brown Political Review, Editor in Chief at the Brown Journal of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics.

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