Tara Isabella Burton

Tara Isabella Burton is a Clarendon Scholar at Trinity College, Oxford, where she is working on a doctorate in theology and literature. She has written for Los Angeles Review of Books, Guernica, Salon, and The New Statesman.

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Pope Francis's Radical Environmentalism

Exploiting the earth "is our sin," the pontiff says.
- Tara Isabella Burton
- July 11, 2014
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Why Are American Colleges Obsessed With 'Leadership'?

What's wrong with being a follower? Or a lone wolf?
- Tara Isabella Burton
- January 22, 2014
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Paris Was My Middle-School Classroom

What I learned from two years of homeschooling in Europe
- Tara Isabella Burton
- November 14, 2013
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Study Theology, Even If You Don't Believe in God

This lost liberal art encourages scholars to understand history from the inside out.
- Tara Isabella Burton
- October 30, 2013