Previous research has shown that perceptual relations, social affiliations, and geographical locations can be predicted using distributional semantics. We investigated whether this extends to chronological relations. In several computational studies we demonstrated that the chronological order of days, months, years, and the chronological sequence of historical figures can be predicted using la...

Formulas to predict presidential greatness on the Maranell index were constructed for 29 presidents from Washington to L. Johnson. When a Zeitgeist variable, derived from the historian A. M. Schlesinger, Jr.'s (1986) work on the public purpose-private interest cycle of American political history, served as the initial predictor and stepwise selection was made from a personological pool and then...

Conventional wisdom holds that large margins of electoral victory contribute to presidential power. How does this variation in power impact U.S. foreign policy? I argue here that presidents who win elections by a substantial margin authorize the use of substantial military force more regularly, but do so at the expense of personal diplomacy and low-level crisis engagement. This distinction stem...

In 1967, Robert Bellah argued that America’s “founding myth”, what he called American civil religion, helps bind society together by providing its citizens with a sense of origin, direction, and meaning. For evidence, primarily turned to the inaugural speeches presidents. This paper draws on semantic network analysis empirically examine addresses Presidents Trump Biden, looking for evidence som...