“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 By Paul Davies
• Business as Usual at the U.N. By Samantha Power
• Spreading Democracy By Eric J. Hobsbawm
• Transhumanism By Francis Fukuyama
• Religious Intolerance By Martha Nussbaum
• Free Money By Alice M. Rivlin
• Hating America By Fareed Zakaria