This essay appears in the Fall 2013 issue of Modern Age. To subscribe now, go here.   An “impassioned idealist” and a relentless advocate of traditional southern values, Donald Davidson chose a life of insubordination.1 In poetry, essays, scholarship, and criticism, Davidson challenged prevailing orthodoxies that he believed condemned men in the twentieth century … Continue reading [em]The Attack on Leviathan[/em] at 75:[br] A Commemoration and a Critique