
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 recalls some familiar wisdom about education and democracy.
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Commentator David Bouchier is impressed by how much we can eat.
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Commentator David Bouchier remembers a Superman we could all imitate.
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Commentator David Bouchier is impressed by the number of landscapers working in the suburbs.
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Commentator David Bouchier thinks that the end of the world has been announced far too often.
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Commentator David Bouchier considers books he has not yet finished reading, and some he never will.
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Commentator David Bouchier considers the importance of height in human affairs.
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Commentator David Bouchier reflects on the long history of patriotism.
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Commentator David Bouchier seems to remember that the good old days were not always good.
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Commentator David Bouchier wonders how to plan a vacation in a complicated world.