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Added a section on political views,
==Column==
==Column==
With her paleolibertarian weekly column in its 21st year (remarked upon by Mises Institute President Jeff Deist, in the introduction to Mercer’s 2019 lecture at the Mises Circle,<ref>https://mises.org/library/how-democracy-made-us-dumb</ref>Mercer<ref>https://peoplepill.com/people/ilana-mercer</ref>is considered a most prolific female paleolibertarian columnist,<ref>https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=well+known+paleolibertarain+women+writers</ref>Professor Walter Block commenting that “her op eds number not in the hundreds, but in the thousands.”<ref>https://www.linkedin.com/in/walterblock/</ref>
With her paleolibertarian weekly column in its 21st year (remarked upon by Mises Institute President Jeff Deist, in the introduction to Mercer’s 2019 lecture at the Mises Circle),<ref>https://mises.org/library/how-democracy-made-us-dumb</ref>Mercer<ref>https://peoplepill.com/people/ilana-mercer</ref>is considered a most prolific female paleolibertarian columnist,<ref>https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=well+known+paleolibertarain+women+writers</ref>Professor Walter Block commenting that “her op eds number not in the hundreds, but in the thousands.”<ref>https://www.linkedin.com/in/walterblock/</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>, American Greatness.<ref>https://amgreatness.com/author/ilana-mercer</ref> and CNSNews.com<ref>https://cnsnews.com/user/259915</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>, American Greatness,<ref>https://amgreatness.com/author/ilana-mercer</ref> and CNSNews.com<ref>https://cnsnews.com/user/259915</ref>
Translated into German, Mercer’s column was a regular feature<ref>https://jungefreiheit.de/author/ilana-mercer/</ref>in Junge Freiheit,<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junge_Freiheita</ref>a German weekly. Other publications that have carried Mercer’s columns are Antiwar.com,<ref>https://original.antiwar.com/ilana-mercer/</ref>The Ron Paul Institute,<ref>http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/search-results/?author=Ilana+Mercer</ref>The American Thinker,<ref>https://www.americanthinker.com/author/ilana_mercer/</ref>The Daily Caller,<ref>https://dailycaller.com/author/imercer/</ref>The Mises Institute,<ref>https://mises.org/profile/ilana-mercer</ref> and LewRockwell.com.<ref>https://www.lewrockwell.com/author/ilana-mercer/</ref>
Translated into German, Mercer’s column was a regular feature<ref>https://jungefreiheit.de/author/ilana-mercer/</ref>in Junge Freiheit,<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junge_Freiheita</ref>a German weekly. Other publications that have carried Mercer’s columns are Antiwar.com,<ref>https://original.antiwar.com/ilana-mercer/</ref>The Ron Paul Institute,<ref>http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/search-results/?author=Ilana+Mercer</ref>The American Thinker,<ref>https://www.americanthinker.com/author/ilana_mercer/</ref>The Daily Caller,<ref>https://dailycaller.com/author/imercer/</ref>The Mises Institute,<ref>https://mises.org/profile/ilana-mercer</ref> and LewRockwell.com.<ref>https://www.lewrockwell.com/author/ilana-mercer/</ref>
On the left, observed Mercer, the Public Broadcasting Service's Bill Moyers had spoken about the concept “Deep State” in 2014. On the right, James Burnham wrote about the “Deep State” in 1941, except, says Mercer, Burnham called it the “Managerial State.”<ref>https://billmoyers.com/2014/02/21/anatomy-of-the-deep-state/</ref>
On the left, observed Mercer, the Public Broadcasting Service's Bill Moyers had spoken about the concept “Deep State” in 2014. On the right, James Burnham wrote about the “Deep State” in 1941, except, says Mercer, Burnham called it the “Managerial State.”<ref>https://billmoyers.com/2014/02/21/anatomy-of-the-deep-state/</ref>
'''Anarchism'''
Mercer argues that fundamentally different and competing views of justice (right and wrong) will inevitably arise in anarchy.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV4r1MIABuo</ref> Viewing natural law as immutable, and the search for truth as the ultimate value of justice, Mercer says she cannot accept this.<ref>https://misesuk.org/2015/04/15/libertarian-anarchisms-justice-problem/</ref>
Furthermore, she believes that just because we suffer similar pitfalls under the state, it doesn’t necessarily make anarchy a “principled” option going forward.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV4r1MIABuo</ref>
Due to a badly broken justice system, Mercer says that even under a minimal state and certainly under that state today, criminals could and do get away with murder. This fact, claims Mercer, is not a sufficient reason to support a state of affairs where, as a matter of principle, proportional, moral retribution will not necessarily be the goal of justice.<ref>https://www.unz.com/article/is-anarcho-capitalism-compatible-with-natural-justice/</ref>
In the context of the private production of defense, Mercer states that in the case of murder, the forfeiture of just retribution implies that the right to life is a right that the victim’s proxies can choose to alienate or relinquish, if they choose,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV4r1MIABuo</ref>and that some victims will not be covered by a “punishment agency.” After all, who sees to it that justice is achieved in the case of those who cannot afford or don’t want to contract with a private firm?
She makes the point that there is little incentive for an agency to pursue a dangerous offender who has not harmed a client, and therefore asks if we rely on a bunch of good neighbors who will take up arms and hunt the man/woman down. Or, rather, as a society, through the law, make a public declaration of the few abiding and immutable values we wish to uphold (i.e., criminal must be brought to justice and tried in a court of law).<ref>https://www.wnd.com/2015/04/libertarian-anarchisms-justice-problem/</ref>She concludes that, to the extent possible, there must be a commitment, however imperfect, to justice for all and not only for those who’ve contracted with an agency, and that “The danger of reducing justice in cases of such crimes to a negotiated deal strikes [her] as moral relativism if not a recipe for nihilism.”<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV4r1MIABuo</ref>
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