IN TUESDAY’S newspaper, one of the voices in “Voice of the People” – the letters section – came from Michael Meeropol, who in 1973 earned a Ph.D. in economic history from UW-Madison.
Meeropol, who today is chairman of the department of economics at Western New England College, wrote in defense of UW-Madison retaining instructor Kevin Barrett in the wake of Barrett’s controversial views of the 9/11 attacks being publicized.
….Many readers of Tuesday’s paper may not have realized it, but Meeropol knows more than most about “controversial topics.”