by Katherine Judith Anderson In 1884, a white American named Lyman Stewart founded Union Oil of California. To get his start, he’d leveraged the American “rule of capture,” which granted drillers the right to siphon out any oil they discovered below the surface, no matter who owned the land itself. By 1920, Union Oil owned […]
Author: Katherine Judith Anderson
Katherine Judith Anderson is an assistant professor of English at Western Washington University and the author of Twisted Words: Torture and Liberalism in Imperial Britain, forthcoming in April 2022 from the Ohio State University Press. She has written reviews for Public Books and The Critical Flame.
