The poet, one of the founders of Moscow conceptualism, Lev Rubinstein, is perhaps the most famous Russian columnist of recent years. In short, precise and caustic texts, the author gives a comprehensive description of events, finds their cause and predicts the consequences. But not only this is important - Rubinstein’s texts, written on a variety of occasions, belong to real literature and form it no less than his famous cards. And, like any good literature, they adjust their vision and hearing so that it becomes more difficult to pass by forgery and falsehood. The book “Causal Time” includes notes published on the sites Grani.ru and InLiberty.ru