Books, Arts & Manners

Darwin on Trial, by Phillip Johnson (Regnery Gateway, 178 pp., $19.95)

PHILLIP JOHNSON has written a provocative book, but you aren’t likely to see it reviewed in the Washington Post or The New York Review of Books. For Johnson, a law professor at the University of California at Berkeley, has taken on perhaps the most bloated of sacred cows: evolution. The very cogency of his arguments ensures that the mainstream press will greet his book with silence.