What PC English professors don't want you to know...in Beowulf - If we don't admire heroes, there's something wrong with us , in Chaucer: Chivalry has contributed enormously to women's happiness, in Shakespeare: Some choices are inherently destructive (it's just built into the nature of things) , in Milton: Our intellectual freedoms are Christian, not anti-Christian, in origin , in Jane Austen: Most men would be improved if they were more patriarchal than they actually are , in Dickens: Reformers can do more harm than the injustices they set out to reform , in T. S. Eliot: Tradition is necessary to culture, in Flannery O'Connor: Even modern American liberals aren't immune to original sin .