I'm relieved to hear it. The argumentative quality of the Ayal discussions makes it pretty natural that each of us feels that the magazine's "atmosphere" goes against what she personally believes (my impression, personally, was closer to Rudy's, and opposite to the message above, but it could be just as biased).

I can't speak for others, but had the Ayal been explicitly "libertarian", I would not be writing here. I was under the impression that if someone needed or wanted to be patted on the back for her beliefs, rather than pushed to argue them with differently-minded people, this was not the place to be, and am glad that the editorial board thinks similarly.