Jamelle and John are joined by Michael Liroff of the Five Four podcast to discuss “The Fugitive,” a masterpiece of Dad cinema. They talk the liberal politics of the 1990s, the surprisingly nuanced racial politics of the film, and complain, as always, that they just don’t make them like this anymore.

Connor Lynch produced this episode. Artwork by Rachel Eck.

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Links from the episode!

The New York Times front-page for August 6, 1993

Toni Morrison on Bill Clinton

Wikipedia entry on Harold Washington, the 51st mayor of Chicago

Also, a quick note: Jamelle said this was the 27th episode of the podcast, ti is actually the 28th! Our apologies for the mistake.