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Lev Tsitrin

Articles

Today’s Law and Justice in a Trecento Fresco

(September 2022)

Free Speech in the USSR and in the US

How Does Time Look?

The Case that Lev Built

(September 2021)

Blog Posts

My lesson from Thomas Friedman’s critique of Israel: in a democracy, politicians can’t shun dirt

Law professors “have earned a little contempt,” too

“Who Can Rein In the Supreme Court?” asks the New York Times. It can, but doesn’t want to.

Call AI something else. Please.

Slavery reparations without repatriation? That’s greed, not justice

What makes speech “free”? PEN America may know, but WNYC won’t ask

Opportunity v Opportunism

Can “a democratic press” be built by the elites?

Vladimir Putin, a Russian Hamlet

“Truth matters?” That’s a wrong lesson to learn from Fox’s settlement of Dominion lawsuit!

From Eichmann to bin Laden, the more things change, the more they stay the same

Will AI make us think?

ProPublica asks a wrong question about Supreme Court Justice Thomas

Trump, Politics, and Law

To he, or not to he? This is the question

Good question, New York Times!

To save the country, betray its people

Exposing the backdoors: military, cyber, judicial

Pivot to truth before it is too late

Judicial independence: independence from what exactly?

The “greatest blunder” of the New York Times’ op-ed section: publishing drivel

Thomas Friedman on Israel. Ignorant? Malicious? Hypocritical? All of the above?

(February 2023)

New York Times’ faulty logic of L.G.B.T.Q. victimhood

(February 2023)

Ukraine war, told in Aesop’s fables

(February 2023)

Seymour Hersh “doth protest too much.” And too little, too

(February 2023)

When it comes to judiciary, The New York Times puts Israel first, America second

(February 2023)

What causes Islamist terrorism? If you are really smart, the answer is “capitalism”

(February 2023)

The opposite logic of guilt, in America and in Israel

(February 2023)

BBC asks whether US will sanction Israel over settlements

“Day of the Endangered Lawyer”? How about “Day of the Law-Abiding Judge”? Or “Day of the Honest Press”?

Is Kenneth Roth of HRW antisemitic by inclination — or by profession?

PI (and SI) at the New York Times — or why is it that when A is B, and B is C, A is not C?

Some unasked questions in Hamline University Mohammed’s portrait brouhaha

Is the Ukraine war a “civil war”?

What exactly is “artificial intelligence?” – some futuristic ruminations

Plumbing the depth of NPR’s bias in “On the Media”‘s selective censure of book censorship

(December 2022)

An unsolicited advice to Dean Chemerinsky of Berkeley Law School

(December 2022)

Sure, the body is mindless. By why should the mind be mindless, too?

(December 2022)

What ayatollahs are doing, is a crime. Why they are doing it, is idiocy

(December 2022)

Is “transphobia” bigotry, or mere disgust at fakes?

(December 2022)

Worldview, ideology, fact, religion. Let’s draw some demarcation lines around them.

(November 2022)

Mr. Charles M. Blow of the New York Times, smarty-pants

(November 2022)

Dear DOJ investigators: why was Shireen Abu Akleh wearing flak jacket and a helmet?

(November 2022)

Getting clarity on “winning” vs. “not losing”

(November 2022)

Call me what you want, but this is disgusting.

(November 2022)

New York Times’ Thomas Friedman, shuffling facts to feed his bias

(November 2022)

Ukrainian diplomacy would be better off without hypocrisy

(November 2022)

It should be funny — but it isn’t

Russia’s self-destructive harmony

Russia’s nuclear rhetoric and the Ukraine war

Chelsea (née Bradley) Manning accuses New York Times/Washington Post of indifference to facts. She (née he) is right

And the Nobel for cowardliness goes to… the Nobel committee!

Schizophrenia at the Law Desk of the New York Times

Geography of democracy makes a difference in press coverage of arbitrary judging

(September 2022)

Wikipedia (and other sources) explaining Putin and his “partial mobilization”

(September 2022)

Anti-Trump New York Times’ columnists are on Trump’s side. They just don’t know it.

(September 2022)

A new generation grew since 9/11, yet we still can’t defeat terrorism. Why?

(September 2022)

In bashing Trump, New York Times sides with him against Chief Justice Roberts

(September 2022)

What does a Chukchi author, an Australian journalism student, and an American journalism professor have in common?

(September 2022)

Putin’s wishes v. Putin’s abilities

Where does free stuff come from, professors?

Salman Rushdie, a prophet of God

Is the ice under judicial fraud getting thinner?

China’s Xi learns wrong lessons from Putin’s tough love for Ukraine

Attacking Ukrainian grain port and blowing up a POW barrack: mere brutality, or thought-out messaging?

NY Times opposes censorship. So why does it practice it?

P.G Wodehouse (via Reg Green), explaining the Ukraine war

Hurricanes and Wars

Be a patriot and resign, Ms. Paul.

Who should wield power? Mr. Xi, or the “treasonous or traitorous” of Hong Kong?

Linguistic confusion: “revolution”? “counter-revolution”?

If lies endanger democracy, why not be truthful, people in power?

Iran’s nuke crisis is Trump’s fault, not Obama’s, NY Times? Really?

President Macron: tone-deaf, or just not that bright?

Blasphemy? There is no such thing

What to Americans is a private folly, to Russians is US policy, it seems

Is “The Progress Network” “The Brainless Network”?

Harvard, Shmarvard

How about shaking off feudalism, Russia?

The “Peace in our time” is alive and well at the New York Times

Ignorance is Bliss at the New York Times

Lavrov’s Diplomacy of Illogic

The cries of the afflicted reach (Swedish) high heaven

Kevin McCarthy causes a tempest in the New York Times’ teapot

Are we confusing “historical” with “holy”?

Is speech addressed to body, or the mind?

Is “the enemy of the people” of 1930s “the fascist” of 2020s?

What is Caesar’s, and what is God’s?

Vladimir and Volodimir, speaking a different language: Russian

Russian army, in WW2 and Ukraine

Judges are knowingly deceitful, per Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson

American defeatism, Ukrainian defiance

Putin battles Andersen, and wins – at least so far

Ukraine invasion: a sign of Putin’s mental problem, or a mere miscalculation?

(February 2022)

Why laws aren’t laws, internationally and at home

(February 2022)

Russia falls back. Towards what?

(February 2022)

NYU put professorial racism on display?

(February 2022)

Racism’s triple-whammy

(February 2022)

Welcome to the Machine

Me, Sarah Palin, and the battle for sane courts and truthful press

US Government: ‘Corruption for me, but not for thee’

‘Big Lie?’ How am I to know?

Is the undefeated enemy the same as the defeated one?

(December 2021)

Attack Iran? But how?

(December 2021)

There is strength in numbers. But is there truth in numbers, as Communists and Islamists think?

(December 2021)

‘Judicial independence’ or judicial tyranny?

(December 2021)

‘Everybody knows.’ Except for the New York Times. And the diplomats.

(December 2021)

On Slavery

(November 2021)

Arkansas Times (backed by ACLU and the New York Times) is against what it is for

(November 2021)

(November 2021)

The decline of democracy: whose fault is it?

(November 2021)

Globalism versus reality, competence versus naivety

(November 2021)

What about it, New York Times?

(November 2021)

Freedom, tyranny, and talent

(November 2021)

Is the war on ‘misinformation’ a battle for truth, or for the turf?

The statues of Heinrich Heine, and of Thomas Jefferson

Why do writers write?

The wisdom of the Koran, and of an Aesop’s fable

Why do ignoramuses teach in San Diego?

(September 2021)

Voting for Democrats takes a deadly turn

(September 2021)

Mainstream media’s good intentions only pave the road to hell

(September 2021)

The lesson of 9/11 we do not heed

(September 2021)

Per the New York Times, Islamist Theocracy is Shriveling

The New Yorker hits the prostrated Cuomo, teaching us something about mainstream journalism.

The Economist’s ‘Soft-Pedaling Islam’ is an Instance of Racism

Ben & Jerry’s new motto: "hate, strife, and boycotts"

The Jeremiad by New York Times’ Blow over-blows the worth of mainstream media

The necessary and the unnecessary wars

Why is it so hard for American academics to resist conforming?

Chernobyl, Covid, and the Curse of Communism

Hypocrisy on full display in Virginia’s Justice High School

The surfeit of politeness? Rutgers’ apology to anti-Semites is bizarre, and sick

Technology outstrips writers’ imagination. Except when it doesn’t

To Have Justice, Stop Deifying Judges

Free speech needs more method, less madness

‘He hit me back first’ logic of the New York Times

The New York Times is a monument to hypocrisy

Protecting property from vandalism is racist, per NY Times

Rather than packing the Supreme Court, make judging impartial

Would-be Court Reformers, Please Face the Elephant in the Court Room

(February 2021)

To Defeat Islamism, Focus on the Mind

(February 2021)

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