The conclusion traces out the legacies of the battle between interwar liberal and anti-liberal political aesthetics. The antagonism of literary critics toward liberalism and neoliberalism in the present has inherited elements of the modernist confrontation with liberal governance, as demonstrated through some of the more important figures in the debate. Our own relationship to liberal governance tends to occlude the specific relationship of modernists to the dominant liberal order of their time, in a way which impoverishes our accounts of politics and aesthetics between the wars.