
I'm standing in line waiting to place a coffee order. A group of young customers are ahead of me, necks crooked 45 degrees, eyes glued to their phones, index fingers flying through Twitter feeds filled with post-inauguration memes. "We should call our band 'This American Carnage,'" one says, looking up from his phone for a reaction. "Sign of the times, right?" I look down at the dollar bill I've been holding to put in the tip jar. A steely-eyed George Washington stares back at me, and I half expect his eyebrow to arch in response to the comment. But when I flip the bill over, a detail on the Great Seal catches my attention. Below the Roman numerals bearing the date of the Declaration of Independence are the words "Novus Ordo Seclorum" — A New Order of the Ages.