At a time when academic and political repression is sweeping the United States, the 1942 screwball comedy The Male Animal offers a reminder of what courage in the face of crackdowns on a college campus can look like.

It’s graduation season in America, one that has been made unusually dramatic and occasionally inspiring by university students such as Cecilia Culver of George Washington University and Logon Rozos of New York University, who defied tremendous governmental and social pressure and risked serious consequences to make statements during their commencement ceremonies condemning the openly genocidal campaign against Palestinians in Gaza by the government of Israel, backed by the United States.

I was never expecting to find a mainstream movie that would reflect this shocking state

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