Finally, an addition to the long neglected Book Reviews section of the blog.   I've been reading some interesting material here and there but few books have merited the effort of a blog write up.   Luckily, Human Accomplishment by Charles Murray broke the streak.   Perhaps the best summary of the book comes from Murray himself -

...the material in these chapters keeps returning to a time and place where the globe's accomplishment has been concentrated: Euopre during the period from 1400 to 1950. For some readers, that concentration of accomplishment is a fact requiring no further proof; for others, it is a discredited Western conceit requiring no further consideration.

My full review is here.