The World's Most Dangerous Ideas

The World's Most Dangerous Ideas is a September/October 2004 special report published in the bimonthly American magazine Foreign Policy.

Criteria

Eight notable authors were asked to issue an early warning on the ideas or ideologies that will be most destructive in the coming years.^[1]

Nominees

• War on evil (Robert Wright)^[2]
• Business as usual at the U.N. (Samantha Power)^[3]
• Transhumanism (Francis Fukuyama)^[4]
• Free money (Alice Rivlin)^[5]
• Undermining free will (Paul Davies)^[6]
• Spreading democracy (Eric Hobsbawm)^[7]
• Religious intolerance (Martha Nussbaum)^[8]
• Hating America (Fareed Zakaria)^[9]

Criticism

Some of the nominated ideas have elicited accusations of alarmism by others.^[10]

References

1. The world's most dangerous ideas|The Chronicle of Higher Education
2. Wright, Robert (2004-09-01). "War on Evil". Foreign Policy (144): 34–35. doi:10.2307/4152976. JSTOR 4152976. Retrieved 2010-09-01.
3. Power, Samantha (2004-09-01). "Business as Usual at the U.N." Foreign Policy (144): 38–39. doi:10.2307/4152978. JSTOR 4152978. Retrieved 2010-09-01.
4. Fukuyama, Francis (2004-09-01). "Transhumanism". Foreign Policy (144): 42–43. doi:10.2307/4152980. JSTOR 4152980. Retrieved 2010-09-01.
5. Rivlin, Alice (2004-09-01). "Free Money". Foreign Policy (144): 45–46. doi:10.2307/4152982. JSTOR 4152982. Retrieved 2010-09-01.
6. Davies, Paul (2004-09-01). "Undermining Free Will". Foreign Policy (144): 36–38. doi:10.2307/4152977. JSTOR 4152977. Retrieved 2010-09-01.
7. Hobsbawm, Eric (2004-09-01). "Spreading Democracy". Foreign Policy (144): 40–41. doi:10.2307/4152979. JSTOR 4152979. Retrieved 2010-09-01.
8. Nussbaum, Martha (2004-09-01). "Religious Intolerance". Foreign Policy (144): 44–45. doi:10.2307/4152981. JSTOR 4152981. Retrieved 2010-09-01.
9. Zakaria, Fareed (2004-09-01). "Hating America". Foreign Policy (144): 47–49. doi:10.2307/4152983. JSTOR 4152983. Retrieved 2010-09-01.
10. Transhumanism: The Most Dangerous Idea? – Reason.com