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Review Essay of Why the West Rules – for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future by Ian Morris

To answer the question of why the west has outpaced the east over the last 200 years, the author digs deeper than any single-volume history I have ever read, from the emergence of homo sapiens 150,000 years ago to present. The whole way, however, he examines key concepts to tie it all together – it is not a descriptive tour, but an attempt to elicit law…