Ilana Mercer
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<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>
References
- ↑ https://bigleaguepolitics.com/interview-writer-ilana-mercer-takes-on-the-cato-institutes-left-libertarianism/
- ↑ [1] Townhall.com
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 http://www.geoffmetcalf.com/qa/26773.html
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/02/end-south-africa-josh-gelernter
- ↑ https://www.wnd.com/2018/11/slates-resident-idiot-slanders-jewish-woman-me
- ↑ https://www.healthyplace.com/addictions/articles/stop-making-excuses-for-drug-addiction
- ↑ https://www.wnd.com/author/imercer
- ↑ http://www.unz.com/author/ilana-mercer
- ↑ https://townhall.com/columnists/ilanamercer
- ↑ http://www.quarterly-review.org/tag/ilana-mercer
- ↑ https://amgreatness.com/author/ilana-mercer