Demo Club on "Localist" Movement Feb. 23

Professor Susan McWilliams will speak to the Canada Crescenta Democratic Club on Sunday, February 23, on "Front Porch Republic," about the emerging “localist” movement. The meeting will be at the home of Celina Lew and Ed Castro in La Canada, from 3:00 to 5:00 PM.

McWilliams, who has enjoyed several speaking engagements with this Club, is an Associate Professor in the Politics Department at Pomona College where her expertise is American Political Thought. Her courses include “American Democracy in Theory and Practice,” “Dangerous Books,” and “Politics and Literature.”

She is the author of "Traveling Back: Toward a Global Political Theory” (Oxford University Press, 2014) and is working on a volume that explores the political thought of James Baldwin. She is the co-editor, with Patrick Deneen, of Wilson Carey McWilliams’ recently released books “The Democratic Soul” and “Redeeming Democracy in America.” She is also the co-editor, with John Seery, of the forthcoming "The Best Kind of College: An Insiders' Guide to America's Small Liberal Arts Colleges."

More information can be found at http://canadacrescentadems.org.