Jason Peters
Local Culture 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-in-chief of Local Culture: A Journal of the Front Porch Republic and editor emeritus of 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
Time-Travel Economics with Jonathan Swift
Rock Island, Illlinois. It’s a little-known fact that many of our finest writers owned time machines and paid frequent visits to the future. Furious John Ruskin (1819-1900), for example, that…
