We have worker rights, women's rights, and minority rights. I for one do not want to see a regression to a culture like that of 1950's. For better or for worse, popular culture is intimately linked with technology. How does Mr. Frum respond to the possibility of genetically engineering children. These are all signals of progress, and there is no way a conservative mode of thinking is going to prepare us for the fruits of the free market.
Regression culturally is no way to deal with progressive conditions.
I think Frum is being a pedagogue of the repressive. He sees values as being results of the policies incited by the state. Well, these policies are reflections of the people's will. Government has a mandate from ALL the people, not just the politicians. If society wants social programs, then why do conservatives think they have the right to say that these things are bad.