Jason Peters tends a small acreage in Ingham County, Michigan, and teaches English at Hillsdale College. A founding member of FPR, he is the editor of both Local Culture: A Journal of the Front Porch Republic and Front Porch Republic Books. His books include The Culinary Plagiarist: (Mis)Adventures of a Lusty, Thieving, God-Fearing Gourmand (FPR Books 2020), Wendell Berry: Life and Work (University Press of Kentucky 2007), Land! The Case for an Agrarian Economy, by John Crowe Ransom (University Press of Notre Dame, 2017), and Localism in the Mass Age: A Front Porch Republic Manifesto (co-edited with Mark T. Mitchell for FPR Books, 2018).
Jason Peters
Articles by Jason Peters
From the Editor–The Inaugural Issue of Local Culture
And so in 2019, at the tenth annual FPR conference marking FPR’s tin anniversary, we are pleased to bring out the first issue of Local Culture: A Journal of the…
And Then Begin Again With What Remains: A 10-Year FPR Retrospective
On the tenth anniversary of FPR we must admit a little sadly that we’re still relevant.
Walking in a Dead Man’s Shoes
A woman in another kind of grief uttered the terrible “should have been.”
On Being Less than We Are
What you miss out on by not making the climb is too great a loss on such a morning as this.
The Holy Waters, the Bra Tree, and The Unexpected: A Study in Contrasts; Or, Gone Fishin’ (Again)
And then comes the last kayak, plenty buoyant, and in it a beauty contestant in minimal black swimwear.
Once More to the Garden (Then to the Trout Streams): A Dispatch
I wonder if Mr. Big in the sky would be willing to give us a Do-Over.
The Bar Jester Goes Off (While Putatively Responding to Matt Stewart)
We also need technological monks.
At Last, the FPR Manifesto
... where human affairs are conducted as if place really matters, where economic affairs are conceived as if limits really matter, and where political power is exercised as if liberty…
The Winter of our Disconchickentent: A Dispatch
Nature stepped in in her wonted way and took complete control.
A Few Favorable Words About Jud Heathcote
I understood immediately why Skiles was a Spartan and I was not.
Good Night, Sweet Babe Magnet
It's as if two men are talking fondly about a woman both of them were once married to.
And Then Came the Chickens, Part Two: A Dispatch from Dumb-Ass Acres
“Bawk-bawk be-gehk!” she cries, and I know just where she’s coming from.
New Book on Wendell Berry and Higher Ed
Front Porchers Jeff Bilbro and Jack Baker---the two JBs of Spring Arbor University---have just brought out Wendell Berry and Higher Education: Cultivating Virtues of Place, a long-awaited book that got…
And Then Came The Chickens—After the Bobcat: A Dispatch
Heaven favored me with three successive clement weekends.
Shared Governance and Mandatory Training: The New Incoherence
So long as gravity obtains, sawing off the branch you’re sitting on is never a good idea.
Politics as Religion: A Brief Assay Essayed after Midnight
For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; / Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.
What the Smartphone is Good For (Besides Nothing)
The invaluable works of our elder writers, I had almost said the works of Shakespeare and Milton, are driven into neglect.