The World's Most Dangerous Ideas Explained

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]

Notes and References

1. https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-worlds-most-dangerous-ideas/ The world's most dangerous ideas|The Chronicle of Higher Education
2. Wright . Robert . Robert Wright (journalist) . War on Evil . Foreign Policy . 2004-09-01 . 144 . 34–35 . 10.2307/4152976 . 4152976 . 2010-09-01.
3. Power . Samantha . Samantha Power . Business as Usual at the U.N. . Foreign Policy . 2004-09-01 . 144 . 38–39 . 10.2307/4152978 . 4152978 . 2010-09-01.
4. Fukuyama . Francis . Francis Fukuyama . Transhumanism . Foreign Policy . 2004-09-01 . 144 . 42–43 . 10.2307/4152980 . 4152980 . 2010-09-01.
5. Rivlin . Alice . Paul Davies . Free Money . Foreign Policy . 2004-09-01 . 144 . 45–46 . 10.2307/4152982 . 4152982 . 2010-09-01.
6. Davies . Paul . Paul Davies . Undermining Free Will . Foreign Policy . 2004-09-01 . 144 . 36–38 . 10.2307/4152977 . 4152977 . 2010-09-01.
7. Hobsbawm . Eric . Eric Hobsbawm . Spreading Democracy . Foreign Policy . 2004-09-01 . 144 . 40–41 . 10.2307/4152979 . 4152979 . 2010-09-01.
8. Nussbaum . Martha . Martha Nussbaum . Religious Intolerance . Foreign Policy . 2004-09-01 . 144 . 44–45 . 10.2307/4152981 . 4152981 . 2010-09-01.
9. Zakaria . Fareed . Fareed Zakaria . Hating America . Foreign Policy . 2004-09-01 . 144 . 47–49 . 10.2307/4152983 . 4152983 . 2010-09-01.
10. http://reason.com/archives/2004/08/25/transhumanism-the-most-dangero Transhumanism: The Most Dangerous Idea? – Reason.com