Category Archives: Ilana Mercer

FACEBOOK “FRIENDSHIP” POLICY

Ilana Mercer, IlanaMercer.com, Technology

FACEBOOK “FRIENDSHIP” POLICY: This Facebook Page (https://www.facebook.com/ilanamercer.libertarian) is a forum from which the work done on www.ilanamercer.com and http://barelyablog.com/ is championed and promoted.

A precondition for Facebook “Friendship” is a general interest in this work. A Facebook personal page, after all, is a fraternity of sorts.

Want to become part of my Facebook community? Very well. In return, I’d like “Into The Cannibal’s Pot” and its cause to get face time on your timeline’s Book favorites.

Please send your Facebook-Friendship request my way once you have “Liked” (as a first step, we hope) the Facebook Fan Page of “Into The Cannibal’s Pot: Lessons For America From Post-Apartheid South Africa” (@ https://www.facebook.com/IntoTheCannibalsPot), by adding The Cannibal to your Book Favorites.

Click “Welcome” (@ https://www.facebook.com/IntoTheCannibalsPot) to read editorial reviews. To “know” “The Cannibal” is to love him.

UPDATED: ‘Return to Reason’ One of the Most Popular Columns on WND …

Ethics, Ilana Mercer, IlanaMercer.com, Labor, Reason, South-Africa

My column, Return to Reason, was among the three most popular columns on WND for the month of April. Return to Reason is WND’s longest-standing, exclusive, libertarian weekly column.

I thank my readers for doing their part …

Alexa US Ranking for WND: 423
Alexa World Ranking for WND: 1,832

UPDATE (May 26): A pleasant surprise awaits you, Myron, in the new, improved, softcover edition of The Cannibal,, wherein you are now mentioned.

Anyone who wishes to read this bonus material should petition The Cannibal’s Publisher to supply Amazon with Cannibal copies, via the Amazon-approved channels. This is the very basic commitment of publishing. Without Amazon a work has no life.

Amazon is the lifeblood of any worker-bee writer.

UPDATED: The Law of Rule In The New South Africa

Business, Ethics, Etiquette, Ilana Mercer, Individualism Vs. Collectivism, Race, South-Africa

Eugene Girin reviews “Into the Cannibal’s Pot: Lessons for America From Post-Apartheid South Africa” at VDARE.COM: “…what rule of law can exist in a country ruled by a party of racially-motivated terrorists whose unofficial anthem is the song ‘Kill the Boer’ and whose current president’s favorite song is ‘Give me my machine gun,” he asks.

MORE.

MAÑANA. I’d like to be able to offer you the softcover copy of The Cannibal. It has been collated and features bonus material. I know I’ve promised courtesy copies to Dr. Victor Niederhoffer and other deserving parties.

The new, softcover issue should be available sometime soon—although do take into account that the Pacific Northwest is not Manhattan. After almost a decade in this region, I can safely say that, with a few treasured exceptions, people outside the Microsoft workforce (who, with Boeing, is the main employer here) have a hard time acting professionally and honorably.

So, all I can say is that the softcover of The Cannibal is coming “Mañana,” Pacific Time.

Or, Inshallah, as we say in the Middle East.

Keep a look out; it’s worth it.

As my tiny, treasured parrot (T. Cup) used to say, “It’s coming.”

UPDATE: The review says the word “whites” a lot. The book doesn’t. As I mentioned in “National Review Eunuchs”:

I cop to Western man’s individualist disdain—could it be his weakness?—for race as an organizing principle. For me, the road to freedom lies in beating back the state, so that individuals may regain freedom of association, dominion over property, the absolute right of self-defense; the right to hire, fire, and, generally, associate at will.

The Cannibal jibes with that sentiment.

UPDATE: This evening, Peter Brimelow emailed to tell me that, following the review on VDARE.COM, The Cannibal shot up to “Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #15,531 in Books .” Just looked. Many thanks.

‘The Cannibal’ Has Another Convert

Ilana Mercer, Ilana On Radio & TV, libertarianism, Political Economy, Political Philosophy, Private Property, South-Africa

In attendance at the New York Junto gathering, where I was the month of May’s featured speaker, was Jay Taylor, a New-York based investor and broadcaster who invests and broadcasts in the Austrian tradition.

I was delighted to hear that the topic of the talk—“Natural Rights in ‘Into the Cannibal’s Pot’: Abstractions or Facts of Life?”—resonated with Jay.

Here’s what the New York money and media man has written:

“It is most important your insights are aired as widely as possible so I was going to have my producer at Voice America track you down if I didn’t hear back from you. [I reply to every single inquiry I get. It may take time—a week or two, or more—but I answer all civilized, normal, sane interlocutors. Few are the people who get struck off my list of interlocutors. I can count 2 individuals in total in the last 5 years. And that took years of displays of incorrigible, maladaptive and manipulative irrationality, the kind that verges on malevolence.]
I really loved your talk and the following discussion. It was very enlightening. What I would most like to achieve in our discussion is to help people see how the loss of property rights is dangerous to liberty and even our safety. And I would like people to realize that applies to America as well as anywhere else.
Then I would like to have that point hammered home to my many “liberal” friends who may have their hearts in the right place but just don’t understand human nature.
You opened up a huge number of philosophical questions that I am personally struggling with, having come from a very religious Mennonite background in Ohio. Where do Natural Rights come from? “We hold these truths to be self evident. That we are endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights among which are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness (I think it was originally property?)”
I think you are actually quite good at addressing topics and questions when they are raised. I thought you did a great job at NY Junto. … I think you did a great job of explaining the connection between private property and liberty. I will do everything I can to promote your book and the ideas contained therein…

I will be on The Jay Taylor Radio Program sometime in June.