Today’s post will offer a reading of a passage in More’s Utopia that is, in no small part, anticipated by a Sanford Kessler "Religious freedom in thomas More's Utopia." The Review of politics 64.2 (2002): 207-230. So I don’t make any claim to originality in this post. Having said that my angle is slightly different than Kessler’s, so even if you are familiar with it there may something worth digesting here. In fact, this post builds on my recurring interest (