MediaBistro interviews the editor of Reason magazine (posted as a shoutout to Matt Welch, who writes for the mag). His philosophy:
Fundamentally, I don’t think the magazine is interested in controlling people’s lives. What we’re interested in doing is reducing the number of controls on people’s lives, both in the cultural arena, in the political arena and in the lifestyle arena. You know, the point of life is not to be engaged in politics, the point of life is to get to a place where you can do what you want to and be with the people you want to be with, and create the life that you take pleasure in.
If you read The Nation or the National Review, you get a sense that these are people who really like politics and they like the ability to control what other people are able to do. Typically, the joke is that conservatives want to be your father and leftists want to be your mother. But both of them want to control what you’re doing to a substantial degree.