ILANA Mercer is paleolibertarian author, essayist and theorist. She has been doing verbal swordplay since 1999, to advance First Principles, as against American imperial wars and hegemony; and for a multipolar world with national and individual sovereignty for all.

An “independent scholar,” she is described as a system-builder. Distilled, the Mercer modus operandi has been to methodically apply first principles to the day’s events with verve, vim, and muscular style, so that what was penned 23 years back, in her paleolibertarian weekly column, begun in 1998, in Canada, is true today and will be true years hence. The result: A systematic account of paleolibertarianism. The warp and woof—the very structure of the thing—is revealed. To wit, libertarianism’s axle is the nonaggression axiom. Ordered liberty, however, has a civilizational dimension, stripped of which the axiom by which we all must live cannot endure.

A wickedly funny English wordsmith, a warrior against war, the state, statism, and against cultural, ethical, and intellectual degeneracy—Mercer deploys the art of deductive argument, praxeology, to decapitate, on paper and in pixels, liberty’s enemies. ~Libertarian Autobiographies: Moving Toward Freedom in Today’s World: A Woman of The Libertarian Right (September, 2023, Palgrave Macmillan). Editors: Professors Jo Ann Cavallo and Walter E. Block.

ILANA is Jewish. She grew up in Israel from which she fled, aged 19, never to return. Her focus, since October of 2023, has been genocide. A war against civilians is a war on civilization. Or, as one sage succinctly put it, “At a time of genocide; genocide is the only issue.”