What Is Normal?

Danny Postel quotes journalist Afshin Molavi: “Iranian youth largely dismiss the radical ideas of their parents’ generation, full of half-baked leftism, Marxist economics, Third-World anti-imperialism, Islamist radicalism and varying shades of utopian totalitarianism.  ‘We just want to be normal,’ is typical of what hundreds of students have told me.  ‘We are tired of radicalism.'” . . . But what is normal?

What Is Normal?


Iraj Yamin Esfandiary is a painter, designer, and cartoonist from Iran.  This cartoon was first published in Iranian.com on 7 April 2010; it is reproduced here for non-profit educational purposes.  Click here to see other cartoons by Esfandiary.




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