Deus Ex Machina with Bohan Lou Podcast by Bohan Lou

Episodes 7

Avg. Duration 1h 19m

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Apple Rating ★ 4.8 (6)

Since May 2024

Latest Episode Feb 2026

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Schedule

Semi-Annually

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Episodic

Hosting

anchor.fm

About This Podcast

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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S1E6 #7 - Zack Exley - Industrial Development, Political Technologies

Feb 02, 2026 2h 11m

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…

S1E6 #6 Charles Ferguson - Dot Com Boom Silicon Valley, Winning an Oscar, Government and Innovation

Aug 21, 2025 1h 11m

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…

S1E5 #5 Peter Hessler - Human Cost of Chinese Progress, Gender in Egypt, Unstructured Authoritarianism

Apr 16, 2025 1h 37m

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…

#4 Samo Burja - Revolution vs Evolution, Progress, Historical Memory

Sep 11, 2024 1h 12m

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…

#3 Jonathan Kaufman - Jewish Dynasties in China, End of Communism, Journalism's Future

Aug 17, 2024 1h 15m

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…

#2 Steve Hsu - Competent Leaders, Physicists in Finance, Free Will

Aug 12, 2024 1h 25m

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…

S1E1 #1 Alice Han - Geopolitics, Sino-French Relations, Cuisine

May 06, 2024 1h 13m

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…