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What's A Nobel Peace Prize Good For Anyway?

What's A Nobel Peace Prize Good For Anyway?

The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to a UN agency dedicated to ending world hunger. But is the award worth the hype?

Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast

October 10, 202018m 25s

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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.