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The World's Most Dangerous Ideas is a September/October 2004 special report published in the bimonthly American magazine Foreign Policy.
Criteria
[edit]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
[edit]- 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
[edit]Some of the nominated ideas have elicited accusations of alarmism by others.[10]
References
[edit]- ^ The world's most dangerous ideas|The Chronicle of Higher Education
- ^ Wright, Robert (2004-09-01). "War on Evil". Foreign Policy (144): 34–35. doi:10.2307/4152976. JSTOR 4152976. Retrieved 2010-09-01.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Fukuyama, Francis (2004-09-01). "Transhumanism". Foreign Policy (144): 42–43. doi:10.2307/4152980. JSTOR 4152980. Retrieved 2010-09-01.
- ^ Rivlin, Alice (2004-09-01). "Free Money". Foreign Policy (144): 45–46. doi:10.2307/4152982. JSTOR 4152982. Retrieved 2010-09-01.
- ^ Davies, Paul (2004-09-01). "Undermining Free Will". Foreign Policy (144): 36–38. doi:10.2307/4152977. JSTOR 4152977. Retrieved 2010-09-01.
- ^ Hobsbawm, Eric (2004-09-01). "Spreading Democracy". Foreign Policy (144): 40–41. doi:10.2307/4152979. JSTOR 4152979. Retrieved 2010-09-01.
- ^ Nussbaum, Martha (2004-09-01). "Religious Intolerance". Foreign Policy (144): 44–45. doi:10.2307/4152981. JSTOR 4152981. Retrieved 2010-09-01.
- ^ Zakaria, Fareed (2004-09-01). "Hating America". Foreign Policy (144): 47–49. doi:10.2307/4152983. JSTOR 4152983. Retrieved 2010-09-01.
- ^ Transhumanism: The Most Dangerous Idea? – Reason.com