Ilana Mercer

Ilana Mercer is a paleolibertarian author, columnist, blogger and thinker.<ref>[1] 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] Town Hall.<ref>

Early Life

Ilana Mercer was born in South Africa.<ref>[2] Her father, a rabbi and “vocal opponent of apartheid,” <ref>[3] National Review.<ref> <ref>[4] WorldNetDaily.<ref> was “harassed by the South African security forces”<ref>[5] National Review.<ref> and, consequently, moved his family to Israel.<ref>[(http://www.geoffmetcalf.com/qa/26773.html] Later returning to the country of her birth, Mercer earned degrees at the University of South Africa<ref>[6], before immigrating to Canada and finally settling in the United States.<ref>[7]

Column

Mercer’s weekly column began in 1999, in the now defunct Canadian North Shore News.<ref>[8] The column currently appears on WorldNetDaily.com,<ref>[9] The Unz Review,<ref>[10] TownHall.com,<ref>[11] Constitution.com,<ref>[12] Quarterly Review,<ref>[13] and American Greatness.<ref>[14] A few of Mercer's syndicated columns have appeared on The Daily Caller,<ref>[15] American Thinker,<ref>[16] and American Renaissance.<ref>[ https://www.amren.com/author/ilana-mercer/]