In this hyper-impossible job market, is there ever a reason to leave a job? Or decline a job offer? The uncomfortable reality is that to walk away from a job or job offer means to seek another – to run to another, and five cover letters in, it starts to feel like any new job will do.

“You can’t be neutral on a moving train,” the title of historian and activist Howard Zinn’s memoir, has struck me as axiomatic since I first read it years ago.
I put it on a flier I designed to publicize a speech by Zinn at Northwestern University. The flier was unnecessary. It was late fall 2003, [...]