Archive - The Fitzstack

Micromanaging Voters’ Personal Lives Is a Way for Politicians to Pretend they’re Governing

The real reason that viral hugging ad was bad

Oct 26 • Conor Fitzgerald

Disagreeability as a Superpower in the Age of the Internet

Michael Tracey, Nick Fuentes, Trump and an archetype of our time

Oct 19 • Conor Fitzgerald

The Political and Cultural Meaning of the Cornell Case For Men

Love in a Colder Climate

Oct 12 • Conor Fitzgerald

If It Ever Really Existed, the Populist Online Right in Ireland Is Dead

Garvaghy Road, Orange Order marches, and understanding basic political realities

Oct 5 • Conor Fitzgerald

September 2026

Joe Rogan, and Why We Tolerate Some Partisan Creators but Not Others

Who gets to turn their content into a political platform, and who doesn’t?

Sep 28 • Conor Fitzgerald

Ed Sheeran, and Gatekeeping Irish Identity

Also: misunderstanding what it means to be politically neutral in 2026

Sep 21 • Conor Fitzgerald

“The Sigh of an Oppressed Creature, the Heart of a Heartless World”: GTA VI, and What Men Get Out of Games

Freedom and ownership in digital space

Sep 14 • Conor Fitzgerald

The Lindsay Clancy Case Is the Future of Gender Politics, Unfortunately

Who is entitled to sympathy, and why, and what happens if and when that changes?

Sep 7 • Conor Fitzgerald

August 2026

The Frictionless World of Jack Reacher

Muscular Liberalism, literally

Aug 31 • Conor Fitzgerald

I Love Podcasts but I’ve Kind Of Started to Hate Them Too

Making yourself “an active combatant in the war on silence”

Aug 24 • Conor Fitzgerald

Scott Galloway, and The Impossibility of Bringing Men Back Into the Progressive Coalition

Ted Lasso Masculinity

Aug 17 • Conor Fitzgerald

The Shadow of the Shadow of Death

The difference between what you thought aging would be, and what it is

Aug 10 • Conor Fitzgerald

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