Ilana Mercer

Ilana Mercer has been writing a weekly, paleolibertarian think piece since 1999. Her new book is The Paleolibertarian Guide to Deep Tech, Deep Pharma & the Aberrant Economy (February, 2024) She’s the author of Into the Cannibal’s Pot: Lessons for America From Post-Apartheid South Africa (2011) and other books. Mercer is described as “a system-builder. Distilled, her modus operandi has been to methodically apply first principles to the day’s events.” Ilana, whose late father was a rabbi, grew up in Israel and was educated in part there. She speaks writes classical, literary Hebrew.