The Whore House in Falls Church | Interview: Tim Carney

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Tim Carney, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, joins Jonah Goldberg to unpack his latest investigative reporting on a local brothel, and they discuss the cronyism lurking behind tariffs as well as misconceptions common on both the left and the right about encouraging Americans to have more children. Show Notes:—Read Tim's book: Family Unfriendly: A Critical Examination of Overparenting and Its Consequences—Read Tim's reporting on the Falls Church brothel The Remnant is a production of The Dispatch, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch’s offerings—including access to all of Jonah’s G-File newsletters—click here. If you’d like to remove all ads from your podcast experience, consider becoming a premium Dispatch member by clicking here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, can I please have your attention.
0:18.0	Can you digger?
0:27.5	Greetings, dear listeners, this is Jonah Goldberg, host of the Remnant podcast, brought
0:30.7	you about the dispatch.
0:31.7	Dispatch media.
0:33.6	It's been a while.
0:35.3	We are, as counter-programming month comes to an end,
0:39.7	we're going to ease back into the warp and woof of like political stuff,
0:45.2	but not really just swim out to the deep end of the punditry quite yet.
0:49.4	One of the better people for this sort of transitional gray area between evergreen philosophical
0:57.4	navel gazing and actual fund-a-tree-type political stuff is my friend Tim Carney,
1:03.6	Kyle Giamond, at the American Enterprise Institute, and a writer, long-time writer for the Washington
1:09.5	Examiner, wrote a really wonderful
1:11.7	book called The Big Rip-Off, which I still go back to from time to time. And most recently,
1:18.5	forgive me from forgetting the title of your, ah, right there, family unfriendly. And also,
1:25.5	one of the first writers to sort of really nail the relationship of social and civic capital and populism during the first Trump administration, which was Alienation.
1:37.8	Alienated America.
1:38.8	Alienated America.
1:39.6	I'm sorry.
1:40.2	I had to do CNN at 6 a.m. this morning.
1:43.8	And so I'm basically on a vision quest. And so yesterday,
1:49.6	I was emailing with Tim. And I was like, so is there anything you particularly want to talk about
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