Column: UVA leadership tussle exposes Jim Ryan’s shell game

Column: UVA leadership tussle exposes Jim Ryan’s shell game

The University of Virginia is being executed by a circular firing squad. On Nov. 12, Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger wrote the rector and vice rector of UVA’s Board of Visitors urging “the board to refrain from making any selections of finalists or ultimately a president until” after she is sworn in as governor. The following day, Gov. Glenn Youngkin responded with a letter to Spanberger, on which he copied UVA’s full board. The governor thundered…