Deus Ex Machina with Bohan Lou

#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 mar

#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

#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

#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 Riv

#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

#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 inaugura