Jason Peters
Local Culture and FPR Books Editor

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).
Articles by Jason Peters
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.
John Tavener’s The Protecting Veil: A Brief FPR Revaluation
Marian devotion remains stubbornly enduring.
Straight Man: An FPR Revaluation
Her breasts are too good for the local market.
Oneself as Another in the Controlled Burn: A Dispatch
Low flames and smoke and visions of the eschaton.
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…
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.
Four Words to Change the World
Situate the preference where it is, not where it isn’t.
Auld Lame Side
This is what we all need now: a deep belly-laugh.
History as Parable
History is never merely history.
The Night of Susurrant Voices
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
Our dwelling place is the state not of nature but of culture.
Now Let Us Raze Famous Men
He was looking at me with what appeared to be some degree of disbelief.