April 19, 2005
the world's most dangerous ideas (link)
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/files/story2696.php
With this simple conviction, FOREIGN POLICY asked eight leading thinkers to issue an early warning on the ideas that will be most destructive in the coming years. A few of these ideas have long and sometimes bloody pedigrees. Others are embryonic, nourished by breakthroughs in science and technology. Several are policy ideas whose reverberations are already felt; others are more abstract, but just as pernicious. Yet, as the essays make clear, these dangerous ideas share a vulnerability to insightful critique and open debate.
War on Evil
By Robert Wright
Undermining Free Will (archived article)
By Paul Davies
Business as Usual at the U.N. (free registration required)
By Samantha Power
Spreading Democracy
By Eric J. Hobsbawm
Transhumanism (archived article)
By Francis Fukuyama
Religious Intolerance (archived article)
By Martha Nussbaum
Free Money (archived article)
By Alice M. Rivlin
Hating America (free registration required)
By Fareed Zakaria