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==Books==
==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.<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>
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 Mercer’s first book, ""Broad Sides One Woman’s Clash With a Corrupt Culture"" (2003)<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]] said, "This volume appears at a moment of peculiar crisis for libertarians in general," noting that, while libertarian orthodoxy tends to avoid issues of immigration, Mercer is a libertarian who is “sensible about immigration.”<ref>https://vdare.com/articles/a-passion-for-justice-ilana-mercer</ref>
Her second book is ""Into The Cannibal's Pot: Lessons For America From Post-Apartheid South Africa"" (2011). Writing for [[The National Review]], Josh Gelernter referred to Mercer “as a writer with anti-apartheid chops.”<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/02/end-south-africa-josh-gelernter/</ref>, while columnist Jack Kerwick wrote that, “With an intimacy only a native is capable of supplying, Ilana escorts her reader through the history of her native homeland to the present day,” and that the book is also “in a sense, an obituary,” and in many ways a warning for the USA, nothing that, “Ilana is at great pains to insure that her new love [America] is spared the same murderous folly that befell her old [South Africa]. Thus far, though, things are not looking that promising for America on this score, for it is the pursuit of universal abstractions at the cost of neglecting concrete contingencies -- an enterprise that consumes the entire Western world generally and the USA specifically -- that imperiled South Africa in the '90s and America today.”<ref>https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2012/07/ilana_mercers_into_the_cannibals_pot_lessons_for_america_from_post-apartheid_south_africa.html</ref>
Writing for [[News24.com]], South Africa’s foremost online news site, writer [[Claudia Meads]] calls “Into The Cannibal's Pot: Lessons For America From Post-Apartheid South Africa” “probably the most complete dissertation on post-Apartheid South Africa.”<ref>https://www.news24.com/news24/MyNews24/Three-reasons-South-Africa-will-fail-20120809</ref>
Mercer’s third book, ""The Trump Revolution: The Donald's Creative Destruction Deconstructed"" (2016), was “the first libertarian book about the Trump phenomenon.”<ref>https://booklife.com/project/the-trump-revolution-the-donald-s-creative-destruction-deconstructed-16851</ref> In his review, [[Ayn Rand]] scholar Chris Sciabarra<ref>https://chrismatthewsciabarra.com/</ref> concluded that “It is a testament to Mercer’s muscular writing and clever reasoning that I was able to read her book in a single sitting,” and that ideologically Mercer is completely correct that much of what corrupts our political economy is the role of the state.<ref>https://chrismatthewsciabarra.com/</ref> About the general thesis of the book, Dr. Sciabarra observed that Mercer “is no fan of Obama or The W who came before him,” but she thinks that "Trump is likely the best Americans can hope for." She’s “not necessarily for the policies of Trump, but for the process of Trump.” This, in itself, is the most interesting of her arguments in a well-constructed book of essays that builds the case for that process.”<ref>https://chrismatthewsciabarra.com/</ref>
In a review in [[Chronicles Magazine]],<ref>https://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/sounding-the-trump/</ref> Clyde Wilson, a retired professor of history at the University of South Carolina, called “The Trump Revolution: The Donald's Creative Destruction Deconstructed,” the “best extended analysis yet published of the Trump phenomenon,” commenting on Mercer’s “Menckenesque” turn of phrases.<ref>https://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/sounding-the-trump/</ref>
==Political Philosophy==
==Political Philosophy==