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Mercer is the author of three books. Her first, "Broad Sides: One Woman’s Clash With a Corrupt Culture" (2003), is a collection of essays which cover culture and art, economics, crime, immigration, foreign policy and more<ref>https://tinyurl.com/rx9ozam<ref> through a paleolibertarian <ref>https://www.conservapedia.com/Paleolibertarianism<ref> lens. In his review of "Broad Sides", “Restoring the eternal verities,” <ref>https://www.wnd.com/2004/05/24631/<ref> Nelson Hultberg, executive director of Americans for a Free Republic, commented on Mercer’s “libertarian politics and traditional values.” <ref>https://www.wnd.com/2004/05/24631/<ref> “Mercer brings us back to Jefferson,” Hultberg said, in that “She passes judgment,” rejects “the madness of relativism,” and champions “a natural aristocracy among men composed of virtues and talents.” <ref>https://www.wnd.com/2004/05/24631/<ref> Peter Brimelow of VDARE.com <ref>https://vdare.com/articles/a-passion-for-justice-ilana-mercer<ref> said, "This volume appears at a moment of peculiar crisis for libertarians in general," implying that libertarian orthodoxy tends to avoid issues of immigration. <ref>https://vdare.com/articles/a-passion-for-justice-ilana-mercer<ref>
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Mercer is the author of three books. Her first, ''Broad Sides: One Woman’s Clash With a Corrupt Culture'' (2003), is a collection of essays which cover culture and art, economics, crime, immigration, foreign policy and more through a [[paleolibertarian]] lens.<ref>https://www.amazon.com/dp/097410390X/ref=asc_df_097410390X1580209200000?tag=shopz0d-20&ascsubtag=shopzilla_mp_1299-20;15829537122847336231010070301008005&creative=395261&creativeASIN=097410390X&linkCode=asn#reader_B004AYCU1O</ref> In his review of ''Broad Sides'',  Nelson Hultberg, executive director of Americans for a Free Republic, commented on Mercer’s “libertarian politics and traditional values.”<ref>https://www.wnd.com/2004/05/24631/</ref> “Mercer brings us back to Jefferson,” Hultberg said, in that “She passes judgment,” rejects “the madness of relativism,” and champions “a natural aristocracy among men composed of virtues and talents.”<ref>https://www.wnd.com/2004/05/24631/</ref> Peter Brimelow of VDARE.com said, "This volume appears at a moment of peculiar crisis for libertarians in general," implying that libertarian orthodoxy tends to avoid issues of immigration.<ref>https://vdare.com/articles/a-passion-for-justice-ilana-mercer</ref>  
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Ilana Mercer is a paleolibertarian[1] author, columnist, blogger and thinker. She is the author of three books, including Into the Cannibals Pot: Lessons for America From Post-Apartheid South Africa (2011) and The Trump Revolution: The Donald's Creative Destruction Deconstructed (2016), which was "the first libertarian defense" of the Donald Trump candidacy.[2]

Early life

Ilana Mercer was born in South Africa.[3] Her father, a rabbi and "vocal opponent of apartheid,"[4][5] was "harassed by the South African security forces"[4] and, consequently, moved his family to Israel.[3] Later returning to the country of her birth, Mercer earned degrees at the University of South Africa,[3] before immigrating to Canada and finally settling in the United States.[3]

Column

Mercer's weekly column began in 1999, in the now defunct Canadian North Shore News,[6] and currently appears on WorldNetDaily.com,[7] the Unz Review,[8] Townhall,[9] Quarterly Review,[10] and American Greatness.[11]

Books

Mercer is the author of three books. Her first, Broad Sides: One Woman’s Clash With a Corrupt Culture (2003), is a collection of essays which cover culture and art, economics, crime, immigration, foreign policy and more through a paleolibertarian lens.[12] In his review of Broad Sides, Nelson Hultberg, executive director of Americans for a Free Republic, commented on Mercer’s “libertarian politics and traditional values.”[13] “Mercer brings us back to Jefferson,” Hultberg said, in that “She passes judgment,” rejects “the madness of relativism,” and champions “a natural aristocracy among men composed of virtues and talents.”[14] Peter Brimelow of VDARE.com said, "This volume appears at a moment of peculiar crisis for libertarians in general," implying that libertarian orthodoxy tends to avoid issues of immigration.[15]


References

  1. ↑ https://bigleaguepolitics.com/interview-writer-ilana-mercer-takes-on-the-cato-institutes-left-libertarianism/
  2. ↑ [1] Townhall.com
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 http://www.geoffmetcalf.com/qa/26773.html
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/02/end-south-africa-josh-gelernter
  5. ↑ https://www.wnd.com/2018/11/slates-resident-idiot-slanders-jewish-woman-me
  6. ↑ https://www.healthyplace.com/addictions/articles/stop-making-excuses-for-drug-addiction
  7. ↑ https://www.wnd.com/author/imercer
  8. ↑ http://www.unz.com/author/ilana-mercer
  9. ↑ https://townhall.com/columnists/ilanamercer
  10. ↑ http://www.quarterly-review.org/tag/ilana-mercer
  11. ↑ https://amgreatness.com/author/ilana-mercer
  12. ↑ https://www.amazon.com/dp/097410390X/ref=asc_df_097410390X1580209200000?tag=shopz0d-20&ascsubtag=shopzilla_mp_1299-20;15829537122847336231010070301008005&creative=395261&creativeASIN=097410390X&linkCode=asn#reader_B004AYCU1O
  13. ↑ https://www.wnd.com/2004/05/24631/
  14. ↑ https://www.wnd.com/2004/05/24631/
  15. ↑ https://vdare.com/articles/a-passion-for-justice-ilana-mercer
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