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Jason Peters

Articles by Jason Peters

Two Last Suppers and Ordinary Greatness: A Double Eulogy

What are the compensations on the downhill side of life?
Jason Peters
March 1, 2017

David Bosworth on his New Book, Conscientious Thinking: Making Sense in an Age of Idiot Savants

No one who cares about the condition of our culture can afford to ignore Conscientious Thinking. --Jackson Lears, editor, Raritan
Jason Peters
February 24, 2017

From the Nut House (And Into the Nut House) the Bar Jester Returns!

They should be required to share a double bed and commit adultery with each other every night—twice if possible.
Jason Peters
February 22, 2017

Don’t Miss This Book

Front Porcher Rob Grano has a lovely little review of John Lewis-Stempel's The Running Hare: The Secret Life of Farmland. It's over at The University Bookman. Here's a taste: "Really:…
Jason Peters
January 28, 2017

Bill Kauffman on Why We Don’t Need a President

Only the Anti-Federalists, it seems, could envision Lyndon B. Johnson or George W. Bush.
Jason Peters
August 1, 2016

The Holy Earth and Liberty Hyde Bailey’s Front Porch Cred

He wrote sixty-five books and had a hand in another hundred and thirty-five.
Jason Peters
October 20, 2015

A Conversation with Bill Kauffman

I am the illegitimate son of Dorothy Day and H.D. Thoreau.
Jason Peters
July 21, 2015

Bar Jester’s Writing Seminar II; or, How to Write Like a Philosopher

If you want to write worse than the average undergraduate male, consider philosophy.
Jason Peters
January 21, 2015

John Tavener’s The Protecting Veil: A Brief FPR Revaluation

Marian devotion remains stubbornly enduring.
Jason Peters
January 14, 2015

Straight Man: An FPR Revaluation

Her breasts are too good for the local market.
Jason Peters
December 3, 2014

Oneself as Another in the Controlled Burn: A Dispatch

Low flames and smoke and visions of the eschaton.
Jason Peters
November 12, 2014

Something’s Fishy–But Not Very–At Dinnertime

Ingham County, MI As darkness falls upon what a friend of mine charitably calls “Jack-Ass Acres,” and as the promise of rain comes with the moving clouds at the end…
Jason Peters
July 23, 2014

The Dumb Ass Suffers a Cardio-Semantic Arrest

It’s the Big One. Tell the kids I love them. Wait at least a week to remarry.
Jason Peters
July 16, 2014

Four Words to Change the World

Situate the preference where it is, not where it isn’t.
Jason Peters
July 9, 2014

Auld Lame Side

This is what we all need now: a deep belly-laugh.
Jason Peters
January 1, 2014

History as Parable

History is never merely history.
Jason Peters
September 18, 2013

The Night of Susurrant Voices

God didn't put twelve months on the calendar so we could work them all.
Jason Peters
May 29, 2013

An Ancient Legacy of Form: Guardini on Mastery and Nearness

Our dwelling place is the state not of nature but of culture.
Jason Peters
February 26, 2013

Now Let Us Raze Famous Men

He was looking at me with what appeared to be some degree of disbelief.
Jason Peters
July 10, 2012

On Being a Worthy Heir of the Agrarian Contrarians

But, as Shakespeare wrote, we sometimes “by indirections find directions out.”
Jason Peters
May 2, 2012

What’s Wrong With Iowa? (A Transplanted Professor Knows)

If you think you may legitimately enjoy the physical benefits of a place while dwelling in the airy regions of judgment above it, you’d better think again.
Jason Peters
February 7, 2012

Bar Jester Chronicles 15: In Praise of Smartassery

Give me smartassery. Give me a yawning match.
Jason Peters
December 14, 2011