English majors and other humanities students, take heart: your diploma’s not so useless after all!

Though arts, humanities, and social sciences are often disparaged as impractical, Time‘s Annette Gordon-Reed argues that they prepare students for the job market quite well in the long run.

After all, who is better suited to the unpredictable demands of today’s economic climate than someone flexible enough to “write well, think critically, research creatively, and communicate easily” like humanities students are trained to do?