Deus Ex Machina with Bohan Lou
by Bohan Lou
Deus Ex Machina with Bohan Lou explores topics in history, religion, politics, and philosophy, often through a technology and China lens. New episodes will be on Spotify/Apple Podcast and announced on Twitter where you can find me @loubohan
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#7 - Zack Exley - Industrial Development, Political Technologies
Zack Exley is a pioneer of political technologies, having invented the first American political campaign website and worked on campaigns from John Kerry to Bernie, and he was even the mastermind behind AOC's rise in Congress. Zack is also a student of industrial progress and religion, and I love...
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#6 Charles Ferguson - Dot Com Boom Silicon Valley, Winning an Oscar, Government and Innovation
A modern renaissance man, Charles Ferguson was an Oscar and Sundance winning documentary filmmaker, one of the first internet entrepreneurs who founded the first mass market website builder that successfully sold to Microsoft in 1996, a governmental advisory on trade and semiconductors, and now…
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#5 Peter Hessler - Human Cost of Chinese Progress, Gender in Egypt, Unstructured Authoritarianism
Peter Hessler is the author of many bestselling books about China and also one about Egypt. He has been a staff writer at New Yorker and National Geographic Magazine. He was named a MacArthur fellow and his books have won numerous awards. Most importantly, Peter Hessler is one of the foreign...
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#4 Samo Burja - Revolution vs Evolution, Progress, Historical Memory
Samo Burja is a political scientist and historian who founded Bismarck Analysis and is editorial board chair of Palladium Magazine. Samo researches why civilizations fail and coined Great Founder Theory. We talk about revolution vs evolution, the Russo-Ukraine war, linear vs cyclical views of…
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#3 Jonathan Kaufman - Jewish Dynasties in China, End of Communism, Journalism's Future
Professor Jonathan Kaufman, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, editor, and author of multiple best sellers including one of my favorites The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China. Professor Kaufman has been reporting on China since 1978 and served as...
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#2 Steve Hsu - Competent Leaders, Physicists in Finance, Free Will
Professor of theoretical physics and serial founder Steve Hsu discusses his family's martial and athletic tradition, a lack of competent technical leaders for the modern world, intellectual honesty with China watching, embryo selection, free will, and what matters for happiness in life. Notes…
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#1 Alice Han - Geopolitics, Sino-French Relations, Cuisine
Welcome to Deus Ex Machina with Bohan Lou where we explore topics in history, religion, politics, philosophy and when technology intersects with them all. In our inaugural episode we speak with Alice Han, geopolitical researcher and Masterchef about macro-political advisory, Sino-French…
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About this show
Deus Ex Machina with Bohan Lou explores topics in history, religion, politics, and philosophy, often through a technology and China lens. New episodes will be on Spotify/Apple Podcast and announced on Twitter where you can find me @loubohan
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Bohan Lou
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