Feeling a little unprepared for tonight’s Presidential debates? Find a Trinity School alum and watch with them!

In Humane Letter our students read the “Declaration of Independence,” the U.S. constitution; “The Federalist Papers,” selections from the writings of Thomas Jefferson, the Lincoln-Douglas debates, John Locke’s “Second Treatise on Government,” Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s “Essay on the Origin of Inequality” and “On the Social Contract,” Edmund Burke’s “Reflections on the French Revolution,” Friedrich Engels’ “Socialism: Utopian and Scientific,” Karl Marx’s “Communist Manifesto” and “Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts” as well as selected other readings in political theory.

Time spent with history and with great works like these provides graduates with a grounded understanding of the important issues that lie beneath contemporary political debate and give them a lens through which to view even the most interesting of times.

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