With such a luxurious platter of philosophical issues on offer this week, we thought it'd be good to see us out with a song.

ENGADGET: Alt-week 10.13.12: is the Universe a simulation, cloning dinosaurs and singing mice

What Mr Lilley heard was that voters thought that a party that had a philosophical preference for the free market and a smaller state could not be relied on to provide good public services.

ECONOMIST: Man overboard

"Universal health care" was neither already established nor inevitable, and we thought the foundation had made a serious philosophical and strategic error in accepting rather than disputing the left-liberal notion that the provision of "quality, affordable health care" to everyone was a proper role of government.

WSJ: ObamaCare's Heritage

Armed with an impenetrable new vocabulary, and without having to master any rigorous thought, they could masquerade as social, political and philosophical critics.

ECONOMIST: Obituary

Whatever else Mr Avedon thought about photography, an art about which he was unceasingly articulate and philosophical, he did not want it to be kind.

ECONOMIST: Obituary