Jason Peters

Jason Peters
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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).

Recent Essays

Bill Kauffman on Why We Don’t Need a President

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Only the Anti-Federalists, it seems, could envision Lyndon B. Johnson or George W. Bush.

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

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He wrote sixty-five books and had a hand in another hundred and thirty-five.

A Conversation with Bill Kauffman

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I am the illegitimate son of Dorothy Day and H.D. Thoreau.

Townsman of a Stiller Town: Death on the American Highway

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Earth's the right place for love.

From the Archive: The Gauge, the Pump, and Energy Sufficiency

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Efficiency is a false god.

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

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If you want to write worse than the average undergraduate male, consider philosophy.

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

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Marian devotion remains stubbornly enduring.

Straight Man: An FPR Revaluation

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Her breasts are too good for the local market.

Oneself as Another in the Controlled Burn: A Dispatch

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Low flames and smoke and visions of the eschaton.

Something’s Fishy–But Not Very–At Dinnertime

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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...

The Dumb Ass Suffers a Cardio-Semantic Arrest

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It’s the Big One. Tell the kids I love them. Wait at least a week to remarry.

Four Words to Change the World

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Situate the preference where it is, not where it isn’t.
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