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

Auld Lame Side

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This is what we all need now: a deep belly-laugh.

History as Parable

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History is never merely history.

The Night of Susurrant Voices

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God didn't put twelve months on the calendar so we could work them all.

An Ancient Legacy of Form: Guardini on Mastery and Nearness

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Our dwelling place is the state not of nature but of culture.

Now Let Us Raze Famous Men

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He was looking at me with what appeared to be some degree of disbelief.

On Being a Worthy Heir of the Agrarian Contrarians

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But, as Shakespeare wrote, we sometimes “by indirections find directions out.”

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

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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.

Bar Jester Chronicles 15: In Praise of Smartassery

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Give me smartassery. Give me a yawning match.

On the Use of a Grim Joke and a National Elegy

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Until then you’ll welcome into your homes the talking heads who, loving an abstraction, spread a pestilential hatred.

Against Vacation

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The vacation, far from being a treatment for a serious illness, is instead a symptom of it.

The One World On Offer

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Perhaps the tension will be useful when it comes time to make something of what is. Just be sure you make it in a place called home.

Of Dullards, Whales, Frustrations, and Shirts Like Fetters

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What of those who have never once thought it their duty to amuse their readers?
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