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| + | '''Ilana Mercer''' is a [[paleolibertarian]]<ref>https://bigleaguepolitics.com/interview-writer-ilana-mercer-takes-on-the-cato-institutes-left-libertarianism/</ref> 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.<ref>[https://townhall.com/columnists/jackkerwick/2016/07/20/the-trump-revolution-the-donalds-creative-destruction-deconstructed-a-review-of-the-first-libertarian-case-for-the-trump-process-n2195251] Townhall.com</ref> |
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| − | '''Ilana Mercer''' is a [[paleolibertarian]]<ref>https://bigleaguepolitics.com/interview-writer-ilana-mercer-takes-on-the-cato-institutes-left-libertarianism/</ref> 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.<ref>[https://townhall.com/columnists/jackkerwick/2016/07/20/the-trump-revolution-the-donalds-creative-destruction-deconstructed-a-review-of-the-first-libertarian-case-for-the-trump-process-n2195251] Townhallcom.</ref> | |
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| | ==Early Life== | | ==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/ | + | 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</ref> |
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| | ==Column== | | ==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>.
| + | 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> |
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| | ==References== | | ==References== |