Hello everyone and welcome to this podcast introduction to this week's listening to America. I'm Clay Jenkins, and I'm actually in my living room

Let me describe it for you. I've not in my studio today for some reason

There is a gas fireplace on top of it. There are two vases with shocks of wheat

Which is what North Dakota does in this world. There is a beautiful

Little statuette of the Eiffel Tower

There are some building blocks. I made for my daughter when she was born with the Greek alphabet

Have no idea how much trouble that was but she did eventually go on to study classical Greek at Columbia University

And and she was my co-host

Just a couple of days ago for ten days in Greece and was marvelous

We had such a great time. There's a skull. I'm sorry to say every Renaissance humanist has a skull on his mantel piece

And the horse of Selenie from the Parthenon marbles purchased at the British Museum and we were just at the Parthenon

And my daughter went back. This is so interesting. We were at the Parthenon and we had a long debate about whether the marbles should be returned

From England Lord Elgin

Looted them. I think it's only fair to say in 187

Wondupselling them to the British Museum. They've been there ever since

Greece wants them back. Of course, they should go back Greece has a spectacular museum waiting for them

There's no argument that England can any longer use to keep them, but of course they do so far

And so we were there. We had this debate

We went to both the Acropolis and then down to the Acropolis Museum, which is world class and then my daughter went back to

Britain, arrived at like four in the morning and the next day she had to get up and take a train to London because an old friend from

Kansas was there and wanted to go to

high tea at

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