From a reader:

What strikes me about Hirshman’s arguments is how fantastically illiberal they are. Hardly anyone in our deeply liberal society argues that we should sacrifice our desires to a greater good — the churches do, ever so timidly, but that’s about it. If you claimed that citizens should invariably — not just in time of crisis — sacrifice themselves for the nation, you’d be denounced as a fascist, and not without reason. Hirshman calls for something like worship of her huge honking reification of Feminist Equality. Feminism is about the only cause for which anyone could make such a demand without immediately being dismissed as a crank. It’s fascinating to see how much attention she’s getting.