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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 [[Donald 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>

'''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 [[Donald 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>

==Early Life==

==Early life==

Ilana Mercer was born in [[South Africa]].<ref name="Geoff">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 name="Geoff"/> Later returning to the country of her birth, Mercer earned degrees at the University of South Africa,<ref name="Geoff"/> before immigrating to [[Canada]] and finally settling in the [[United States]].<ref name="Geoff"/>

Ilana Mercer was born in [[South Africa]].<ref name="Geoff">http://www.geoffmetcalf.com/qa/26773.html</ref> Her father, a [[rabbi]] and "vocal opponent of [[apartheid]],"<ref name="nationalreview.com">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 name="nationalreview.com"/> and, consequently, moved his family to [[Israel]].<ref name="Geoff"/> Later returning to the country of her birth, Mercer earned degrees at the University of South Africa,<ref name="Geoff"/> before immigrating to [[Canada]] and finally settling in the [[United States]].<ref name="Geoff"/>

==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 [[WorldNetDaily.com]],<ref>https://www.wnd.com/author/imercer</ref> the Unz Review,<ref>http://www.unz.com/author/ilana-mercer</ref> [[Townhall]],<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 [[WorldNetDaily.com]],<ref>https://www.wnd.com/author/imercer</ref> the Unz Review,<ref>http://www.unz.com/author/ilana-mercer</ref> [[Townhall]],<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>