Power of Words Archives — Planet Word Museum The museum where language comes to life Tue, 03 Feb 2026 22:47:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://planetwordmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/cropped-PW_Logo_BLUE_circle-2-1-32x32.png Power of Words Archives — Planet Word Museum 32 32 Language, Liberty & the Weight of America’s 250th Anniversary https://planetwordmuseum.org/from-the-founder-language-liberty-the-weight-of-americas-250th-anniversary/ Tue, 03 Feb 2026 22:47:24 +0000 https://planetwordmuseum.org/?p=10655 Shortly after Planet Word opened, I told our programming staff that we needed to begin thinking about how we would observe special, word-related occasions. Well, the biggest one of all…

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]]> On the Coarsening of Public Discourse https://planetwordmuseum.org/from-the-founder-on-the-coarsening-of-public-discourse/ Tue, 20 Jan 2026 20:39:40 +0000 https://planetwordmuseum.org/?p=10608 I spent a couple weeks trying to draft one of my Messages from the Founder about students not reading whole texts in school (or out of school for that matter)…

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]]> Writer’s Block https://planetwordmuseum.org/from-the-founder-writers-block/ Mon, 22 Sep 2025 20:34:17 +0000 https://planetwordmuseum.org/?p=10321 Wasn’t it fortunate and timely, I thought, that just when words started to be the news — as opposed to simply being used to record and report the news —…

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]]> Words Under Threat https://planetwordmuseum.org/from-the-founder-words-under-threat/ Wed, 26 Feb 2025 22:56:22 +0000 https://planetwordmuseum.org/?p=9629 My instinctive reaction to the broad, undifferentiated cuts to federal departments and programs was skepticism and distress. Would the cuts affect the cleanliness of our air and water, the safety…

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]]> Keeping Our Word in the Face of Meta’s Changes https://planetwordmuseum.org/from-the-founder-keeping-our-word-in-the-face-of-metas-changes/ Fri, 17 Jan 2025 16:21:16 +0000 https://planetwordmuseum.org/?p=9487 When Elon Musk took over Twitter, he reinstated accounts of people who frequently had plied misinformation on the site, and he seemed unconcerned about the platform’s takeover by people with…

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]]> Fed Up with Lies https://planetwordmuseum.org/from-the-founder-fed-up-with-lies/ Tue, 15 Oct 2024 14:50:36 +0000 https://planetwordmuseum.org/?p=8926 As flood waters swirled around people’s homes and yards along with spiraling rumors and disinformation about emergency rescue services, I became fed up — fed up with the lies that…

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