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Kristina Garvin is a writer and researcher in Philadelphia. She has taught at Saint Joseph’s University and Ohio State University, and has received fellowships from the American Antiquarian Society, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the McNeil Center for Early American Studies and the University of Virginia.
Detail of the Irish Famine Memorial in Boston. (iStock/mtraveler)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Kristina Garvin
Victim-blaming and a worship of the free-market system made the Irish Famine much worse. The death toll from Covid-19 shows we have not fully learned from the past.