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 "Foreign Policy" magazine which involves asking eight notable intellectuals to issue an early warning on the ideas or ideologies that will be most destructive in the coming years.[cite paper| author = Foreign Policy Special Reports contributors| title = The World's Most Dangerous Ideas| date = 2004 | url = http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=2696| accessdate=2007-11-29] Some of these warnings have elicited accusations of alarmism.][cite paper| author = Bailey, Ronald| title = Transhumanism: the most dangerous idea?| date = 2004| url=http://www.reason.com/rb/rb082504.shtml URL accessed on February 20 2006] ]Nominees
* (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)
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