GENTLE READER: Miss Manners generally agrees with you, but worries that the social disease of being unwilling to participate ...

Shaking hands might be one of the hardest customs ... It may have originated in ancient Greece as a symbol of peace between two people by showing that neither person was carrying a weapon.

Former Second Lady Karen Pence remained seated and did not shake Trump’s hand. The two men hit a crossroads ... un-American than the notion that any one person could choose the American president.” ...