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The lone wolves Frum presumes to exile – serious, flinty, sometimes wrongheaded and mostly crotchety, unclubbable thinkers such as Peter Brimelow, Lew Rockwell, Paul Gottfried, Sam Francis, Pat Buchanan, and Justin Raimondo – have each added far more to the stock of interesting arguments on the Right than Frum ever will.

I don't know that interesting is the word I'd use to describe the argument presented by that group.

Incoherent
Insipid
Incomplete

Those are better words.

Actually, Frum has been both a social and economic conservative all his adult life. He lit up Novak and Buchanon not for being anti-war, but for using arguments against the war that are patently anti-semetic. I have to say, I have to agree with Frum. I read Buchanon and Novak regularly and in the last 18 months or so they have to some extent become unhinged.

Perhaps.

For one really interesting discussion, let's take PJB's economic protectionism and ask: at what point do the Feds intervene in "free trade" to maintain acceptable standards of living for industrial workers in the USA?

I will admit that one will have to carefully define all the terms, but you get the drift.

A big-time Economist showed up here in Wisconsin and advised a small-business group that in about 30 years Wisconsin would no longer have a business sector in metal fabrication/machining. Zero. Zip. Nada.

"Free trade" will eliminate this sector. We all know that the Red Chinese are paying $10./day to their laborers and Chinese firms don't operate with the same regulatory burden (to say the least) as do US companies. So the conclusion is inevitable...

UNLESS you are the Governor of Wisconsin and have to tell about 25% of the HS/college grads (in year 2033) that there are no jobs for them in Wisconsin.

See what the difficulty is?

SO, you may argue that PJB is right or wrong--but you will have an interesting argument.