Ilana Mercer
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name = Ilana Mercer birth_place = South Africa nationality = American
}} 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 Trump candidacy.[2]
Early Life
Ilana Mercer was born in South Africa.<ref>http://www.geoffmetcalf.com/qa/26773.html/<ref> Her father, a rabbi and “vocal opponent of apartheid,”<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/02/end-south-africa-josh-gelernter/<ref> <ref>https://www.wnd.com/2018/11/slates-resident-idiot-slanders-jewish-woman-me/<ref> was “harassed by the South African security forces”<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/02/end-south-africa-josh-gelernter/<ref> and, consequently, moved his family to Israel.<ref>http://www.geoffmetcalf.com/qa/26773.html/<ref> Later returning to the country of her birth, Mercer earned degrees at the University of South Africa <ref>http://www.geoffmetcalf.com/qa/26773.html/<ref>, before immigrating to Canada and finally settling in the United States. <ref>http://www.geoffmetcalf.com/qa/26773.html/
Column
Mercer’s weekly column began in 1999, in the now defunct Canadian North Shore News, <ref>https://www.healthyplace.com/addictions/articles/stop-making-excuses-for-drug-addiction/<ref> and currently appears on WND.com<ref>https://www.wnd.com/author/imercer/<ref>, the Unz Review <ref>http://www.unz.com/author/ilana-mercer/<ref>, Townhall.com <ref>https://townhall.com/columnists/ilanamercer/<ref>, Quarterly Review <ref>http://www.quarterly-review.org/tag/ilana-mercer/<ref> and American Greatness<ref>https://amgreatness.com/author/ilana-mercer/<ref>.