Arts partisans are celebrating their stimulus victory, but Greg Sandow contends that it really wasn’t such a coup. The arguments made on behalf of the arts “aren’t nearly strong enough,” he writes. “The arts are going to need a better strategy. And in the end it’s going to have to come from art itself, from the benefits art brings, in a world where popular culture — which has gotten smart and serious — also helps bring depth and meaning to our lives.”