<p>Me and my friend Peter Foges made a cheese plate and had a chat: about Afghanistan, the legacy of the 2008 crash, and why our brains are wired to erase memories of love.&nbsp;</p>

Cheese and Chat No. 2: American Psychosis

Peter Foges is a film and television producer. He worked for the BBC in London for fifteen years as a correspondent, an anchor, a producer, and a director before moving to the United States to serve as BBC TV's bureau chief. He sits on the Editorial Board of Lapham's Quarterly. 

Dana Vachon is a novelist and screenwriter. He is the co-author, with Jim Carrey, of the novel Memoirs and Misinformation, and the author of the novel Mergers and Acquisitions. His essays and journalism have appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, and Vanity Fair. 

Together they eat cheese. And chat.