Hamid Dabashi, an Iranian scholar teaching at Columbia University, hits the nail on the head in the intro to his interview with executive director of Amnesty International Larry Cox.

The slogan ‘death to no one’ chanted on Wednesdays protests powerfully demonstrates the way that popular political culture has matured and evolved over the past 30 years – in stark contrast to formal politics as they currently stand. Not to get all Weberian on you, but you can see how the slogans of the Green Movement express its goal: to rationalize the irrational in Iran’s political system, to end arbitrariness, to silence brinkmanship. No more crazed ranting. No more empty, arcane ideology. Iran needs a policy that reflects its young, educated, and politically sophisticated people.