Lots said about Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner’s interview with David Marchese—from his comments on inarticulate black musicians, to his inability to see the limits of his imagination, to his shruggy response to the UVA campus rape story. But beyond the headline-grabbing parts, the most interesting to me is this answer: his unapologetically defensive boomer viewpoint, so absolutely of its time: “What didn’t the rock ’n’ roll generation do? I mean, it didn’t get everything done. But I have no fundamental, deep criticisms. Is there something that you think we didn’t get right?”

Related reading:

• Nice historical overview of Rolling Stone that gives you some of the context

• Everyone should read A Bomb in Every Issue, the fantastic, rollicking tale of Ramparts magazine, a progenitor of Rolling Stone.