title: The World's Most Dangerous Ideas
text: # 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.
  
  