“Having read your columns throughout the years, I think I know you a little bit—I know you come from a very intellectual point of view, an intellectually honest point of view—you have given the most articulate argument I’ve heard ["In Defense of Michael Vick" and against animal rights] on the other side of this, one that is consistent with many of the views you have.”(August 17, 2007)

~SEAN HANNITY, nationally syndicated radio talk-show host, and host of the Fox News Channel program “Hannity”

“I admire your individualism, you are patently not subject to ‘group think’—all too increasingly rare nowadays.”

~JAMES GRISHAM, producer, The Sean Hannity Show

"Ilana Mercer is dangerous: she is intelligent, informed, independent, courageous, thinks clearly and writes well."

~THOMASS. SZASZ, professor of psychiatry emeritus, SUNY Upstate MedicalUniversity, Syracuse, New York, the world’s foremost critic of psychiatric coercions and excuses, and author of 31 books, among them the classic, The Myth of Mental Illness, and, most recently, Coercion as Cure: A Critical History of Psychiatry

“Ilana Mercer is one of the few writers on earth whose talents I truly envy. Ilana is an outstanding writer, but for reasons I cannot begin to fathom is still partly undiscovered. She should be a household name.”

~THOMAS E. WOODS, historian, author of the New York Timesbest-seller, The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History, and the critically acclaimed, The Church Confronts Modernity

“…a mind fearlessly in pursuit of analytical truth.” (From the foreword to Broad Sides)

~PETER BRIMELOW, president of the Center for American Unity, senior fellow at the Pacific Research Institute, columnist for CBS MarketWatch, editor, VDARE.com, and best-selling author of Alien Nation: Common Sense About America’s Immigration Disaster, and The Worm In The Apple: How The Teacher Unions Are Destroying American Education

"Ilana Mercer's insights stand out like a beacon in a vast sea of punditry. She's always hard to pigeonhole. She's always witty and incisive. And she's never predictable..."

~JOSEPH FARAH, founder and CEO, WorldNetDaily.com

"Ilana Mercer writes with the passion and logical clarity of Ayn Rand, the devotion to liberty of a Jefferson or Madison, and the sharp wit and insight of a Camille Paglia. Loaded with facts, logic, and reason, Broad Sides is a wonderfully refreshing antidote to the mushy-headed political correctness that permeates our schools, newspapers and television sets."

~THOMAS J. DILORENZO, professor of economics, Loyola College, Maryland, and author of The Real Lincoln, and Lincoln Unmasked

"Ilana Mercer puts George Will to shame (and Will is a good writer)."

~JAMES OSTROWSKI, attorney, writer, political consultant, and libertarian activist; columnist for LewRockwell.com, president and founder of Free New York, author of Political Class Dismissed

Ilana's work is important in these times. She speaks truth with a great heart and tenacity that is truly unique. She has too much class to simply show her ass as so many women do today; too courageous to sacrifice Israel on the altar of ideology; and too experienced with the ways of the world to lie, cheat and steal her way to fame.”

 ~ROBERT E. REAVIS II, associate judge, Oklahoma

“Ilana is as good a wordsmith as Christopher Hitchens is, maybe better.”

~JEFFREY A. SCHALER, professor of psychology, department of Justice, Law and Society, American University, executive editor of CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY, and author of Addiction is a Choice

"It is hard to know how to describe Ilana Mercer and her magnificent book. I'm tempted to say, 'She comes to us like a breath of fresh air,' and this is certainly true. Although basing her keen insights on the philosophy of economic freedom, private property rights, and free markets, and addressing numerous issues from this perspective, she does so in her own unique voice, with a beautiful writing style, one not heard before from this neck of the woods. On the other hand, I'm also tempted to say 'she comes to us like a storm, like a punch in the nose.' This is also true. 'Hard hitting' doesn't begin to express the sheer power of her thoughts and her words. Whatever the description, this is a book you will treasure for years to come."

~WALTER BLOCK, Harold E. Wirth eminent scholar endowed chair in economics at the college of business administration, Loyola University, New Orleans, and author of eight books, including that libertarian classic, Defending the Undefendable

"Roll over, Ayn Rand!  A new libertarian female author has arrived on the block with no less powerful an intellectual punch but who is also wickedly funny in a way Ms. Rand never was able to be. Ms. Mercer's collection of essays provides a running commentary on the foibles and shibboleths of our age and is a model of how libertarian insights can and should be applied to current affairs."

~DAVID CONWAY, emeritus professor of philosophy, Middlesex University, England, and author of Classical Liberalism: The Unvanquished Ideal, and In Defence of the Realm

"Whatever one might say about Ilana Mercer's opinions (I happen to agree with most of them), one cannot reasonably accuse her of shrinking from controversial topics. Ilana takes on indelicate cultural, social, and political issues and challenges her opponents to rethink their positions. Unlike the narcoleptic 'conservative' columns in the national press, this collection is truly explosive."

~PAUL GOTTFRIED, professor of humanities, Elizabethtown College, and author of Multiculturalism and the Politics of Guilt, and The Strange Death of Marxism

Covering everything from Trade and Terrorism to Microsoft, Medicare, and Eminem, one can only be impressed with Ilana Mercer’s virtuoso performance. In her critical exploration of the irrationalities on display in contemporary life, Mercer defends the timeless principles of objectivity, individualism, self-responsibility, and liberty. This remarkably insightful polemicist, and extraordinary cultural commentator, understands that a free society cannot be sustained in an unthinking culture. And any woman who calls Republicans the 'drag queens of politics' gets my vote for Most Biting Stylist of the Year—even if the description is insulting...to drag queens."

~CHRIS MATTHEW SCIABARRA, visiting scholar, department of politics, New York University, and author of Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical 

“I follow Ilana’s writing with insatiable interest, and recommend IlanaMercer.com to all my students and friends.”

~YURI N. MALTSEV, professor of economics, A.W. Clausen Center for World Business, Carthage College

"Ilana’s book, Broad Sides: One Woman's Clash with a Corrupt Culture, demonstrates that she is a true warrior—a modern day Joan of Arc—in the fight for freedom."

~AARON RUSSO, RIP, noted Hollywood producer, and former libertarian presidential candidate

"Ilana Mercer, whether you agree with her or not, stands out as one of the most independent-minded columnists writing today."

~J.D. HOMNICK, commentator and humorist, Human Events and The American Spectator 

Restoring the Eternal Verities: “In her new book, Broad Sides, Ilana Mercer is Scarlett O'Hara reincarnated with an intellect. She is dangerous and marvelous.”

~NELSON HULTBERG, freelance writer, executive director of Americans for a Free Republic

"A Woman of the Right": Ilana Mercer's Broad Sides: “She's a libertarian, and very much so, in that she values freedom and the progress that comes with freedom; she's a woman of the Right in that she eschews what Ayn Rand called 'the sin of abstraction' and insists that real progress must draw sustenance from the cultural roots below, not just energy from the utopian political sun above.”

~THOMAS L. KNAPP, executive director of the Rational Review, the premier libertarian web journal of politics and culture

The Passion of Principles: “If I could be dispassionate [about Ilana’s book], I would say Broad Sides is a perfect mix of reason and rhetoric.”

~REGINALD FIREHAMMER, author of The Hijacking of a Philosophy: Homosexuals Vs. Ayn Rand's Objectivism, in a review for The Free Radical

Dangers of Democracy: “Ilana’s musings are always stylish, never dull, and inexorably logical.”

~NICKI FELLENZER, national spokesperson of Armed Females of America

“…author of ‘Barely a Blog’… is the single most deep-thinking, thoroughly reasoned libertarian writer of our time, in my experience…"

~THE THINKING BLOG AWARDS

“Ilana Mercer is the best damn essayist I have encountered, right up there with Justin Raimondo (another libertarian), although she arguably surpasses him. Her analytical rigor and verbal fluency astound me (it’s not uncommon for me to have to check the dictionary one or two times when reading her essays), and she is just so reasonable and yet iconoclastic.”

~THE HIP FORUM

“I love your style of writing, for it is matched by no other (well, The New York Times' Frank Rich comes close). … It's nice (and scary) to see there are people out there who agree with you. They need a voice too, and you're the perfect persona to offer that voice.”

~PATRICK JOHNSTON, left-liberal talk-show host, WSGW-790AM