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Ilana Mercer is a classical liberal (libertarian) writer and a fellow at the "Jerusalem Institute for Market Studies." She is the author of "Into the Cannibal's Pot: Lessons For America From Post-Apartheid South Africa." "The titular tease," explains Ilana in the book, "is meant as a metaphor and is inspired by Ayn Rand's wise counsel against prostrating civilization to savagery." Ilana's website is IlanaMercer.com.. She blogs at www.barelyablog.com.
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The miasma of media myth-making

by Ilana Mercer -- In the wake of poor Daniel Pearl's horrible murder, CNN news anchors took a break from celebrating the Islamic hajj and turned their short attention spans to celebrating more…

Congressional churls troll for votes

by Ilana Mercer -- "Fascism," wrote the Tannehills in "The Market for Liberty," "is a system in which the government leaves nominal ownership of the means of production in the hands of more…

Lincoln's legacy of corruption

by Ilana Mercer -- Enron is not the topic of this column – Lincoln is. So why mention Enron in the same breath? Well, the system of subsidies and corporate welfare exemplified more…

The problem with immigration

by Ilana Mercer -- Steve Kubby, the open-border libertarian immigration enthusiast has had another brain event. Like the previous one, I'm pleased to inform you this one is not serious. Kubby continues more…

A reply to Pat Buchanan

by Ilana Mercer -- Pat Buchanan is mostly right about the typical "libertarian devotion to limitless immigration further enlarging and empowering the state." The emphasis is on typical, because some libertarians are more…

Harry's hounders and other village idiots

by Ilana Mercer -- Horror of horrors, Prince Harry, the second son of Prince Charles, has been getting plastered and enjoying the odd spliff. It's not quite clear how the unremarkable news more…

Broken brains?

by Ilana Mercer -- Andrea Pia Yates, whose capital murder trial is now in its jury selection phase, drowned her five children in the bathtub. Yates has pleaded innocent by reason of more…

Did Mohammed invent profiling?

by Ilana Mercer -- When it comes to the sensitive topic of profiling, Muslims, historically, were innovators in their own right. The Nazis were not the originators of the yellow cloth with more…

Vanilla pie-in-the-sky with diamonds

by Ilana Mercer -- "The great events of the world take place in the brain" wrote Oscar Wilde in the magnificent Dorian Gray. Consistent with the bilious bile Hollywood screenwriters and actors more…