A brief Coda considers the relevance of the concerns traced in this book to the status of the humanities in our current moment. The Coda in particular examines one effort to justify continued funding of the humanities through appeal to their importance for national security and economic prosperity. Such a defense of the humanities and other non-STEM/nonprofessional academic disciplines speaks to the triumph and ongoing relevance of the correlation of wealth and security most of the authors addressed in this study sought to resist. By the same token, the coda argues that the works and authors studied here offer other ways of imagining the link between security and the study of literature, modes of intellectual engagement and community that contribute to the project of rendering security and the terms of collective thriving as live questions, vital for the project of imagining better collective futures.