Guy Bentley is an editorial assistant at the Commentator.
The Capitalist as hero: The virtue of Walmart
We should reflect on the beauty of a capitalist system which allows a man like Sam Walton to go from humble beginnings and create huge value for the world through employment, lower prices and more choices
- 29 March 2013
Theresa May fails to defend drug prohibition
Theresa May has shown a lack of courage and integrity by denying the British people the chance to have an open debate on drugs based on evidence
- 8 March 2013
Taxes, unions, and sock puppet charities
Government must stop the brainless routine of paying groups to lobby it for yet more money
- 5 March 2013
Happy birthday Malthus: 247 years old and still wrong
Doomsdayers will point to finite resources and say that man's lifestyle is unsustainable. But the only resource that counts is the human mind - and we have seven billion of them
- 15 February 2013
Racist origins of the minimum wage
Far from being a floor below which wages do not drop, the minimum wage is a barrier over which increasing numbers of the population cannot jump
- 14 February 2013
Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, and things yet to come
Two major players gave us a taste of what this fight will look like in the years running up to 2016 last night. Only time will tell which one was one is right
- 13 February 2013
America's lesson in educational freedom
Reformers in the UK should take heart from what national school choice week has achieved in the States
- 4 February 2013
Telegraph's US Editor makes basic mistake on gun debate
One can criticise the NRA till one's heart's content. But the facts must be allowed to speak for themselves: the vast majority of Americans are safer than Brits
- 31 January 2013
How Ayn Rand's ideas can end Big Government
From bankruptcy and serfdom to a society that is free, prosperous and moral
- 28 January 2013
Krugman, Japan and the definition of insanity
The belief in Keynesian stimulus spending is the perfect example of Albert Einstein's definition of insanity
- 21 January 2013
Hollande's France is a preview of Miliband's Britain
To see what a future Miliband government would look like we do not need a crystal ball, we simply need look across the Channel
- 2 January 2013
Owen Jones and the Left's fantasy economics
No matter how much living standards rise, wages increase, and technology continues to liberate our lives, it will never be enough for the Owen Joneses of this world
- 14 December 2012
'Green washing' at the Committee on Climate Change
It is vital when the government is receiving ‘independent’ advice to have bodies that contain a broad spectrum of opinion. Unfortunately, in the case of the CCC, a whole new meaning to the term 'green washing' comes to mind
- 3 December 2012
In defence of payday loans: Regulation is not the answer
If the government seeks to interfere more with payday lenders the market will be further hampered and innovation to serve the needs of borrowers will be disrupted
- 30 November 2012
Rand was right. Where is our John Galt?
Where is our John Galt who will say to parliament that the dire straits we are in are not a result of the sins of selfishness but of the supposed virtue of self-sacrifice?
- 19 November 2012
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