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Kit Wilson
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Writer & musician. In @TheTimes @ReadLiberties @NewStatesman @TNAJournal @FirstThingsMag @Spectator etc. Philosophy MA at KCL. Editing @EclecticLetters
London, England
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    Kit Wilson
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    Aug 19, 2024
    And lovely to see it in print!
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    Kit Wilson
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    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
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    Aug 3, 2024
    Sick of riots. Moving to France.
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    Kit Wilson
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    Mar 8, 2023
    An Art Deco townhouse in Marylebone — you don’t find many of those…
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    Kit Wilson
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    Oct 16, 2025
    Just need £2m for this beautifully preserved Georgian house in Covent Garden
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    Kit Wilson
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    Nov 7, 2024
    Replying to @ddhitchens
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    Kit Wilson
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    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
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    Feb 4, 2023
    An interesting house in Hampstead (built 1894-1896)
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    Kit Wilson
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    Dec 29, 2022
    Nabokov on Dickens (sort of)
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    Kit Wilson
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    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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