Santa Fe shooting trial delayed again (Jan. 30, 2024)

On Tuesday’s show: The trial of the Santa Fe High School shooter has been delayed again as Dimitrios Pagourtzis has been recommitted to a state hospital for mental health treatment. His capital murder trial remains on hold nearly six years after the 2018 shooting that killed ten and left 13 others injured.

Also this hour: We revisit a 2018 conversation with historian Jon Meacham about his book The Soul of America, which examines some particularly trying times in our nation’s history when presidents and ordinary citizens came together to overcome fear and hate.

Plus, Dr. Jim Allison, a Nobel Prize-winning cancer researcher at MD Anderson, has been named to the 2024 class of The National Inventors Hall of Fame for his efforts developing immunotherapy as a cancer treatment. We hear from him and from a man whose cancer was treated with immunotherapy.

And this weekend, the Houston Symphony is celebrating the centennial of George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue with a concert featuring the iconic composition and other famous Gershwin tunes.