How ‘Fitzpatrick’ Went from Irish Surname to Global Apocalypse Barometer
The Fitzpatrick Doctrine: How One Irish Surname Accidentally Became the World’s Thermometer By Our Man in Exile, still wearing last week’s cynicism DUBLIN—Somewhere between the Liffey and the apocalypse, the name “Fitzpatrick” has quietly metastasized from humble Hibernian patronymic to planetary shorthand for “how screwed are we, exactly?” To the uninitiated, Fitzpatrick is merely the…