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

Why Patrick Deneen Failed

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It's already an amazon dot hell best-seller in political theory.

A Few Favorable Words About Jud Heathcote

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I understood immediately why Skiles was a Spartan and I was not.

Good Night, Sweet Babe Magnet

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It's as if two men are talking fondly about a woman both of them were once married to.

And Then Came the Chickens, Part Two: A Dispatch from Dumb-Ass Acres

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“Bawk-bawk be-gehk!” she cries, and I know just where she’s coming from.

New Book on Wendell Berry and Higher Ed

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Front Porchers Jeff Bilbro and Jack Baker---the two JBs of Spring Arbor University---have just brought out Wendell Berry and Higher Education: Cultivating Virtues of...

And Then Came The Chickens—After the Bobcat: A Dispatch

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Heaven favored me with three successive clement weekends.

Shared Governance and Mandatory Training: The New Incoherence

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So long as gravity obtains, sawing off the branch you’re sitting on is never a good idea.

“Conservatism” and the New EPA

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Nature doesn’t give a damn what it sounds like.

Politics as Religion: A Brief Assay Essayed after Midnight

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For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; / Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.

A New FPR Book by John Crowe Ransom

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Ransom objected to a false dilemma.

Nonsense on Stilts? Dandyism? Okay.

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If I were God, I’d keep other company.

What the Smartphone is Good For (Besides Nothing)

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The invaluable works of our elder writers, I had almost said the works of Shakespeare and Milton, are driven into neglect.
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