Broad Sides: One Woman's Clash with a Corrupt Culture

by Ilana Mercer

Whether reviewing a film, critiquing art and music, or discussing the collapse of boundaries between private and public life-whether Ilana defends creative social benefactors such as Bill Gates and Martha Stewart, or off-shore tax havens, or the deregulation of commerce and trade-her goal is to goad, prod, and otherwise motivate people to think in fresh ways about the issues of the day, to look beyond the corrupting cliches that have dragged our society to the brink."

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Published December 1, 2009

About the author

ILANA Mercer is a paleolibertarian writer based in the US. She has been writing a popular weekly column, begun in Canada, since 1999. Ilana is the author of "The Trump Revolution: The Donald’s Creative Destruction Deconstructed" (June 2016), the first libertarian book of Trump, and of the seminal "Into The Cannibal’s Pot: Lessons for America From Post-Apartheid South Africa" (2011). Ilana’s weekly column appears in The Unz Review (America’s smartest webzine), Constitution.com, TownHall.com, the British Libertarian Alliance, Quarterly Review (the celebrated British journal founded in 1809 by Walter Scott, Robert Southey and George Canning), where she is contributing editor, and PRAAG (which advocates for Afrikaner self-determination). For years, Ilana’s “Paleolibertarian Column” featured on Russia Today and in Junge Freiheit, a German weekly of excellence. For 15 years—until March, 2016—Ilana penned WND’s “Return to Reason” column. Formerly syndicated by Creators Syndicate, Ilana is a fellow at the Jerusalem Institute for Market Studies (an award-winning, independent, non-profit, free-market economic policy think tank).

Reviews

[Austin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Make no mistake, Ilana Mercer is highly opinionated, and slightly crazy. But, she repeatedly displays a unique and dead accurate understanding of why it is so difficult to find a diversity of opinion among our nation’s news media.