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Jason Peters

Local Culture and FPR Books Editor
Jason Peters

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.
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