The World's Most Dangerous Ideas
# 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.

## Nominees

* War on evil (Robert Wright)
* Business as usual at the U.N. (Samantha Power)
* Transhumanism (Francis Fukuyama)
* Free money (Alice Rivlin)
* Undermining free will (Paul Davies)
* Spreading democracy (Eric Hobsbawm)
* Religious intolerance (Martha Nussbaum)
* Hating America (Fareed Zakaria)

### Criticism

Some of the nominated ideas have elicited accusations of alarmism by others.

