| The Hunt family owns one of the largest private oil companies in the country. Leah Hunt-Hendrix funds social movements that want to end the use of fossil fuels.  Photograph by Platon for The New Yorker The idea of an oil heiress conjures a set of images and associations, many of which are quite unflattering. The idea of an oil heiress who has risen to prominence as a progressive critic of inequality conjures another set of images and associations, many of which might also be quite unflattering, though for different reasons. But as Andrew Marantz explores in a deeply reported story about the forty-year-old philanthropist Leah Hunt-Hendrix, granddaughter of the Texas tycoon H. L. Hunt, there may be a way for a politically committed member of the one per cent to fight for a better world while still thinking honestly about her privileges in this current, imperfect one. As one activist says about Hunt-Hendrix’s significance, “She has better politics than anyone else who’s that rich, and she’s better at fund-raising than anyone else with her politics.” Support The New Yorker’s award-winning journalism. Subscribe today » | 
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