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Kit Wilson

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Kit Wilson

@kitwilsonwriter

Writer & musician. In @TheTimes @ReadLiberties @NewStatesman @TNAJournal @FirstThingsMag @Spectator etc. Philosophy MA at KCL. Editing @EclecticLetters

London, England

Joined June 2013

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Kit Wilson
@kitwilsonwriter
Aug 19, 2024
And lovely to see it in print!
Kit Wilson
@kitwilsonwriter
Jul 10, 2024
Thrilled to have my essay on the death of tonality, modernist art, German idealism, and the continuing temptations of historicism in the summer issue of @ReadLiberties. Featuring Schoenberg, Hegel, Liszt, Kandinsky, and Spengler! libertiesjournal.com/articles/music…
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Kit Wilson
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Nov 7, 2024
Very dispiriting to read biographies like: In 1957, while studying piano with Leonard Bernstein at 15 years old, he decided to sit in on philosophy classes at NYU, and after submitting a short paper on Kant, was made Professor of English Literature, a position he held for fifty y
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Kit Wilson
@kitwilsonwriter
Aug 3, 2024
Sick of riots. Moving to France.
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Kit Wilson
@kitwilsonwriter
Mar 8, 2023
An Art Deco townhouse in Marylebone — you don’t find many of those…
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Kit Wilson
@kitwilsonwriter
Oct 16, 2025
Just need £2m for this beautifully preserved Georgian house in Covent Garden
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Kit Wilson
@kitwilsonwriter
Nov 7, 2024
Replying to @ddhitchens
*sigh*
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Kit Wilson
@kitwilsonwriter
Aug 28, 2024
Ever since I was young, I always knew I wanted to go into politics so I could make a difference by banning smoking in pub gardens.
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Kit Wilson
@kitwilsonwriter
Feb 4, 2023
An interesting house in Hampstead (built 1894-1896)
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Kit Wilson
@kitwilsonwriter
Oct 10, 2025
Huh, I asked Chat-GPT if it could come up with a business idea that could be sustained only by 30-something men with PhDs on Beckett who now work in media and think no real political change is possible under neoliberalism but do quite like natural wine, and it gave me this
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Kit Wilson
@kitwilsonwriter
May 26, 2023
One of the most telling signs of our cultural decadence isn’t the supposed decline of art, but the growing popularity of joyless, unimaginative, unambitious, Pavlovian responses like this.
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Kit Wilson
@kitwilsonwriter
Aug 8, 2023
But then, who among us hasn’t prematurely bulldozed a historic pub hours after a mysterious fire and before a proper investigation can be carried out as to what happened?
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Kit Wilson
@kitwilsonwriter
Nov 16, 2025
My weekend essay for the New Statesman — on smartphones, literacy, language, and what ultimately makes us different from AI.
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Kit Wilson
@kitwilsonwriter
Dec 29, 2022
Nabokov on Dickens (sort of)
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Kit Wilson
@kitwilsonwriter
Nov 29, 2024
As well as freedom of speech, we need somehow to establish a cultural presumption in favour of clear, plain speech as a moral good — and an instinctive suspicion of language policing and obfuscation.
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