Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast

What's A Nobel Peace Prize Good For Anyway?


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The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to a UN agency dedicated to ending world hunger. But is the award worth the hype? On today's show, Anne Applebaum, Atlantic staff writer, covering national politics and foreign policy, and the author of Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism (Doubleday July, 2020) talks about this year's Nobel Peace Prize: the U.N.'s World Food Programme for its work fighting hunger during the worldwide pandemic -- and also why she's a skeptic when it comes to the award's significance.

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