CONTENTS 3 Ideological Dissonance fall 2015 vol. 57, no. 4 R. V. Young ESSAYS 8 The German Roots of American Order E. Christian Kopff 27 Are We All German Now? Samuel Goldman 37 Can Taxes Be Fair? Should They Be? 61 George Washington and the Patience of Power 79 Only Half in Fun William S. Peirce David Hein Thomas E. Lynch William F. Buckley Jr.'s New York City Mayoral Campaign, Fifty Years Later REVIEW ESSAY 91 The Meaning of Measure Bryce Christensen POETRY 107 Why Hawthorne Was Melancholy The Lady Never Vanishes Indelible October Robert Beum