Terry Eastland has long been active politically, and some will say his conservative politics flow readily into his Spring 2005 guest column for The Wilson Quarterly, published by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. Eastland, publisher of the conservative newspaper The Weekly Standard, wrote the piece in his capacity as a member of the board of directors for the Center for Individual Freedom Foundation, on whose web site the piece can still be found.