The Fugitive in Flight: Faith, Liberalism, and Law in a Classic TV Show

"In the 1990s when I was watching reruns of The Fugitive on the Arts and Entertainment Network twice a day, I couldn't take my eyes off it. . . . No one in The Fugitive ever relaxes as you watch and you can't relax either, even though for long stretches absolutely nothing happens. It was the combination of nonstop tension with the (relative) absence of slam—bang action that attracted me, and as I now reflect on it, the same combination characterizes the literary works I have been reading an...