The duck swallows the worm, the fox kills the duck, the men shoot the fox, and the devil hunts the men.
Culture clash is terrific drama.
There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era.
Why did people manufacture trouble when there was already so much of it in the world?
I started writing stories in my spare time.
The research is the easiest. The outline is the most fun. The first draft is the hardest, because every word of the outline has to be fleshed out. The rewrite is very satisfying.