David Bouchier
CommentatorDavid began as a print journalist in London and taught at a British university for almost 20 years. After coming to the United States in 1986 he continued to teach and to publish a regular humor column in The New York Times regional edition. He joined WSHU as a weekly commentator in 1992, becoming host of Sunday Matinee in 1996. His most recent books are a collection of stories about life in a French village called Not Quite a Stranger, an essay collection Out of Thin Air, a memoir, An Unexpected Life (2018), political essays Dark Matters (2019) and Journal of the Eightieth Year (2020). He lives in Stony Brook, New York, with his wife who is a professor emeritus at Stony Brook University.
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Commentator David Bouchier observes that the politics of the ancient Roman empire sounds all too familiar.
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Commentator David Bouchier has a suggestion about how to celebrate Darwin Day.
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Commentator David Bouchier remembers a difficult moral lesson from long ago.
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Commentator David Bouchier remembers a difficult moral lesson from long ago.
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Commentator David Bouchier argues that we could save the planet by taking more naps.
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Commentator David Bouchier is suffering from technological nostalgia.
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Commentator David Bouchier remembers the campaign for justice of an earlier Martin Luther.
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Commentator David Bouchier welcomes winter with his usual enthusiasm.
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As the New Year begins, commentator David Bouchier looks very cautiously into the future.
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Commentator David Bouchier considers the ancient beliefs that inspire our holiday shopping.