About this episode
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.