It's the website for reason magazine, a relatively famous right-libertarian publication. They expect their audience to already believe certain things, which i

It's the website for reason magazine, a relatively famous right-libertarian publication. They expect their audience to already believe certain things, which is a pretty good bet for a political magazine with an acknowledged angle. It's not meant to be persuasive in the way you want it to be, because people reading the article mostly don't need to be persuaded in that way.