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 finds that gifts are the hardest part of the holiday season. -
Commentator David Bouchier has an idea for updating the Thanksgiving dinner experience.
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Commentator David Bouchier speculates that artificial intelligence will be the latest of many new technologies to escape human control.
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Commentator David Bouchier suggests that voting tomorrow should be a practice run for a much more momentous vote next year.
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Commentator David Bouchier suggests that Halloween takes us back to a time that we might prefer not to visit.
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Commentator David Bouchier is nervous about investing in cryptocurrencies.
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Commentator David Bouchier remarks on how many people have found an inexpensive way of shopping.
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Commentator David Bouchier considers the impact of the voyages of Columbus.
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Commentator David Bouchier remembers an old-fashioned system of mutual aid.
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Commentator David Bouchier looks for a way to escape winter and fails to find it.
