Ben Carson Makes Ta-Nehisi Coates Sad

During his conversation with Vivian Phillips for Seattle Arts and Lectures, Coates said that it was "deeply painful" for him to watch Ben Carson.Last night, Ta-Nehisi Coates packed McCaw Hall. The room holds 2,900 people, and organizers said they didn't think a writer—a journalist—had ever drawn that large of a crowd.If you'd already read Coates's recent work, none of the conversation with Vivian Phillips seemed new. Phillips set the table for Coates to summarize his arguments in The