What are the ways that lead an intellectual to treason? What is its specific character? Can a true intellectual be a betrayer? Such questions occur to the people whose attitude is not indifferent towards the role of carriers of high intellectual and spiritual values. Julien Benda (1867– 1956), the French philosopher known mainly as a cultural critic, tried to discuss the problem of betrayal of intellectuals in his fundamental work Treason of the intellectuals (1927). Academics and journalists, pundits, moralists, and pontificators of all varieties are in this sense according to Bemda —clerks. The “treason” in question was the betrayal by the “clerks” of their vocation as men devoted to the life of the mind, as Benda put it — “all those whose activity essentially is not the pursuit of practical aims, all those who seek their joy in the practice of an art or a science or a metaphysical speculation, in short in the possession of non-material advantages”. Has the situation changed much since the 20s of the past century? We state that there are nearly no changes. The intellectuals’ “voice”, able of revealing the implicit sense of complex social phenomena, is not listened to, or not heard at all in the hum and noise of political orators. If intellectuals make their voices be heard they insert them in glamour frames, rendering the thought in a distorted and perverted way. The extent the intellectuals are contributing to thinking formation is extremely low and minor. The greater part of lecturers and teachers adjust their narratives and explanations to the requirements of the current situation. In this context, the intellectual veils and hides the truth and no one knows where the truth in his utterance is. Simplification, as one of the variants of interpretation, seems to avoid the most essential things and appears as a kind of intellectual betrayal manifestation. Intellectuals of the 20s of the 21 century are facing the same temptations as the intellectuals of the past.